A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block the National Archives from releasing his White House records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said its ruling will be put on hold for two weeks, though, to allow Trump to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is examining the assault on the Capitol by radical supporters of Trump who were actively looking to interfere in Congress’ certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The panel says it should have the right to see the documents, which are stored at the National Archives and Records Administration, the custodian of Trump’s White House records.
The documents are needed, the panel says, to properly carry out the investigation and determine what Trump knew before, during and after the attack.
Trump said the documents, which include phone call logs, visitor logs, drafts of speeches, memos and handwritten notes, should be protected under executive privilege.
The appeals court sided with the panel in its Thursday ruling.
“The events of January 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we had perhaps come to take for granted,” said the ruling, written by Judge Patricia Millett.
“In response, the president of the United States and Congress have each made the judgment that access to this subset of presidential communication records is necessary to address a matter of great constitutional moment for the republic.
“Former President Trump has given this court no legal reason to cast aside President [Joe] Biden’s assessment of the executive branch interests at stake, or to create a separation of powers conflict that the political branches have avoided.”
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“Former President Trump has given this court no legal reason to cast aside President [Joe] Biden’s assessment of the executive branch interests at stake, or to create a separation of powers conflict that the political branches have avoided.”,,,,,,,and when Trump wins the next election will this same court be so generous with the documents in the archives created and bleach bit’d by Biden and his communist criminal family of traitors? What happened to Hillary’s archives? The fact of the matter is ever since Obama community reorganized our Federal Judicial system and stuffed it with woke judicials, just like he community organized Chicago where in both cases now it is the criminals and socially pathological who never get prosecuted and even when they do never go to jail if the belong to the Democrat crime party of law and disorder manipulation.
WE have already seen how TRAITOR JUDGES like this, are RE democrats pushing executive privilege…
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia? In other words, a court with justices who are communists!
SINCE DC IS NOT a bloody state, they shouldn’t HAVE FEDERAL JUDGES…
“The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is examining the assault on the Capitol by radical supporters of Trump who were actively looking to interfere in Congress’ certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The panel says it should have the right to see the documents, which are stored at the National Archives and Records Administration, the custodian of Trump’s White House records.”
A paragraph full of lies which they still choose to perpetuate—all under the guise of getting to the truth. But they’re still not interested in talking with Mr Ray Epps are they? They have to produce imaginary fraud in order to cover up the actual fraud that occurred.
So when Trump resumes his Presidency we can only hope the transcripts from when crazy joe and his cult of rogues “were” in office will be released to America.
Assuming they even KEPT them