He’s asked the Supreme Court to block the January 6 committee’s request for White House records from that day. Former President Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to block White House documents from reaching the congressional committee investigating last year’s deadly Capitol insurrection. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in D.C. unanimously determined Trump couldn’t use executive privilege to keep the records—which President Joe Biden authorized for release—secret from the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. But Trump’s spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, had said the case was “always destined for the Supreme Court” anyway. Trump’s lawyers made good on that promise Thursday, appealing to the high court in filings that asserted his claims to executive privilege were “well established,” and that the congressional panel’s demands for documents were “exceedingly broad.” (…) During Trump’s single term, he managed to stack the Supreme Court with three conservative justices, with his the most recent appointee, Amy Coney Barrett, ascending to the high court just days just before the November election that Trump lost. In the following months, however, Trump repeatedly and aggressively argued Biden’s win was illegitimate, culminating in the disastrous riot in D.C. the day Congress was set to certify Biden’s Electoral College victory. During that mob attack—which led to several hundred people being charged for ambushing the seat of American democracy—five people died, and the Capitol sustained some $30 million in damage.
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