Trump urges federal court to block Jan. 6 committee’s access to records
The legal team of former US President Donald Trump has pleaded with a federal court to block the Jan. 6 select committee's access to the records of his administration, claiming that there is "no evidence of wrongdoing."
"The Committee’s breathless innuendo and conjecture cannot sustain the broad scope of their request when there is no evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump and those in the White House," Trump's lawyers wrote a court filing against the committee.
This comes after the Republican president filed a lawsuit last month, asking a federal court to ban any cooperation between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Jan. 6 select committee. Trump maintains that the panel’s access to his White House records would infringe his executive privilege.
The committee, however, has rejected Trump’s claim last Friday, calling the former president's executive privilege claims "deeply flawed."
"The Select Committee’s request is squarely within its jurisdiction and driven by a clear legislative purpose: to understand the facts and causes surrounding the January 6 attack to develop legislation and other measures that will protect our Nation from a similar assault in the future," the committee's lawyers said in a court filing. "The Select Committee has reasonably concluded that it needs the documents of the then-President who helped foment the breakdown in the rule of law."
US President Joe Biden ordered the archives to provide the latest documents 30 days after notifying Trump unless a court intervenes.
Since Jan. 6, Democrats have been arguing that the protest was an insurrection based on disinformation spread by the former president, who alleges that he is the true victor of the 2020 presidential election and not Biden.
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