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WASHINGTON-Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the federal appeals court to temporarily block the release of notes to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurgency led by his supporters.
Trump’s lawyers have requested a temporary stay from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Aside from the court order, the National Archives is expected to return on Friday call notes, draft speeches and other documents related to Trump’s insurgency. Trump’s lawyers have asked the court to set a schedule for the case that would delay any decision until next week.
Congress searched the records to better understand the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in which rioters ransacked the building and forced lawmakers to hide proving Trump’s defeat in the election to President Joe Biden.
Biden waived executive privilege on the documents. Trump then went to court arguing that as a former president, he still had the right to have privilege over the records and that releasing them would damage the presidency in the future.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday denied those arguments, citing partially, “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.” He again denied an emergency motion by Trump on Wednesday.
In their appeal to the court of appeals, Trump’s lawyers wrote that without retention, the former president would “suffer irreparable harm by effectively denying a constitutional and statutory right to be fully heard in a serious disagreement between the former and incumbent President. “
The White House also notified an attorney for Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, that Biden would waive any executive privilege that would prevent Meadows from cooperating with the committee, according to a letter obtained by the AP. The committee subpoenaed Meadows and more than two dozen other people as part of its investigation.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report
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