Washington: Former President Donald trump On Thursday, a federal appeals court asked a House committee investigating the January 6 uprising led by their supporters to temporarily block the release of the records. Trump’s lawyers requested the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to temporarily halt. Barring a court order, the National Archives is expected to turn over Trump’s call logs, draft speeches and other documents related to the rebellion on Friday. Trump’s lawyers asked the court to set a schedule for the case that would delay any decisions until next week.
Congress is seeking records to better understand the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in which rioters ransacked the building and forced the president to hide lawmakers who testified to Trump’s election loss. Joe Biden,
Biden waived executive privileges on documents. Trump then went to court arguing that as a former president, he still has the right to have privileges on record and that releasing them would harm a future presidency.
United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday dismissed those arguments, saying “the president is not the king, and the plaintiffs are not the president”. He again denied an emergency offer by Trump on Wednesday.
In an appeals court filing, Trump’s attorneys wrote that without a hold, the former president “is irreparable through effective denial of a constitutional and statutory right to a thorough hearing on a serious disagreement between a former and incumbent president.” damage will be suffered”.
The White House also informed a lawyer for this on Thursday. Mark MeadowsTrump’s former chief of staff, that Biden would waive any executive privileges that would prevent Meadows from cooperating with the committee, according to a letter obtained by the AP. the committee Saman Meadows and more than two dozen others as part of its investigation.
Congress is seeking records to better understand the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in which rioters ransacked the building and forced the president to hide lawmakers who testified to Trump’s election loss. Joe Biden,
Biden waived executive privileges on documents. Trump then went to court arguing that as a former president, he still has the right to have privileges on record and that releasing them would harm a future presidency.
United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday dismissed those arguments, saying “the president is not the king, and the plaintiffs are not the president”. He again denied an emergency offer by Trump on Wednesday.
In an appeals court filing, Trump’s attorneys wrote that without a hold, the former president “is irreparable through effective denial of a constitutional and statutory right to a thorough hearing on a serious disagreement between a former and incumbent president.” damage will be suffered”.
The White House also informed a lawyer for this on Thursday. Mark MeadowsTrump’s former chief of staff, that Biden would waive any executive privileges that would prevent Meadows from cooperating with the committee, according to a letter obtained by the AP. the committee Saman Meadows and more than two dozen others as part of its investigation.
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