Trump lawyers urge appeals court to block access to important docs
A team of lawyers working for former US President Donald Trump has asked an appeals court to overturn a court ruling giving access to all official records of his administration.
Trump's legal team urged the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to overturn the court ruling from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan giving the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) permission to hand over hundreds of pages of White House records to the committee probing the Jan.6 Capitol Hill attack.
The legal team pleaded with the appeals court that the initial federal court's ruling by Judge Chutkan was a "rubber stamp" for the House Jan. 6 Select Committee and would upend the balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches.
"The stakes, in this case, are high," read the Trump's legal team's filing. "A decision upholding the Committees’ request to NARA would have enormous consequences, forever changing the dynamics between the political branches. It is naïve to assume that the fallout will be limited to President Trump or the events of January 6, 2021. Every Congress will point to some unprecedented thing about 'this President' to justify a request for his presidential records."
Trump's lawyers claimed that the ruling will be by lawmakers as a new weapon to harass future administrations.
"Congress will increasingly and inevitably use this new weapon to perpetually harass its political rival," they claimed.
Democratic lawmakers believe that the deadly Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill was an insurrection at the instigation of Trump.
Prior to the attack, which left five people killed, Trump had launched a massive disinformation campaign, claiming he had won the 2020 US presidential election, not Joe Biden.
He said Democrats stole the votes.
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