
Biden administration defends its decision not to assert executive privilege over Trump's White House records
CNN
Both the House of Representatives and the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny former President Donald Trump's attempt to keep secret more than 700 pages of records that pertain to January 6.
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The House select committee argues that it desperately needs the papers for its sprawling probe into the deadly insurrection, and that Trump hasn't shown how he would be harmed enough to keep the records from being released. And the Biden administration is defending its decision that White House records from January 6 shouldn't be protected by executive privilege. Trump has disagreed, and his insistence on secrecy prompted him to sue in October.

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