U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a retreat with Republican lawmakers at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, January 6, 2018.
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Former President Donald Trump The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to block a request for White House records from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots by a mob of Trump supporters. .
Request has arrived two weeks after two lower courts rejected Trump’s argument that the records were protected by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that allows certain White House communications to remain private.
chairperson Joe Biden denied the privilege request for the disputed material.
Trump lashed out at the committee in a statement on Thursday re-emphasizing his false claims that Biden was elected president in his stead solely because of popular vote rigging.
“Those who are being persecuted by the Unelected Committee on January 6 should simply tell the truth that they are angry about the BIG 2020 Presidential Election,” Mr. Trump said.
“Everyone has the right to Freedom of Speech, and perhaps never before in the history of our Country has the Right to Freedom of Expression been so completely violated,” he said. “They don’t want to talk about the election results because they know they can’t win.”
Trump’s request to the Supreme Court to appeal his appeal comes as the selection committee is considering his role in the January riots, when hundreds of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol. and forced House and Senate members to flee their chambers.
The rioters, many of them motivated by Trump’s repeated lies that victory in the 2020 election had been stolen from him, have temporarily prevented Congress from confirming the victory. of the Biden Electoral College.
The committee is also investigating whether Trump sought to prevent Congress from performing its mandate to count the electoral votes.
Vice Chairman, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of two Republicans with nine members.ommittee, last week said that an “important question before this committee” is whether Trump, “through action or inaction, corrupts [sought] to obstruct or impede the official procedure of the National Assembly to count the electoral votes. “
A federal judge last month ruled against Trumpefforts to keep the record off the committee, writing that his stance “seems to be preceded by the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity … but presidents are not kings, and Plaintiffs are not not the President.”
In disputes between current and former presidents, “the incumbent’s position carries more weight,” wrote judge Tanya Chutkan.
Trump appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, but that court upheld Chutkan’s decision.
Biden “and the Legislative Branch have expressed national concern and urgent need for the prompt release of these documents,” a three-judge panel in the circuit court said in its decision. their December.
However, the appellate court approved Trump’s request to temporarily suspend the release of the documents During the proceedings, Trump’s attorneys have 14 days to file the case with the Supreme Court before the temporary restraining order is lifted.
