Court pauses handover of Trump White House records to Jan. 6 committee
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An appeals court has put a temporary pause on the handover of records from the Trump White House to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
An appeals court has put a temporary pause on the handover of records from the Trump White House to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday granted a request from former President Donald Trump's legal team for a temporary injunction to block the exchange of records from the National Archives to the committee, which was set to take place Friday, and scheduled a Nov. 30 hearing to hear arguments from all parties in the case.
Trump sued the committee and the National Archives last month, asserting executive privilege over a broad swath of documents the national archivist had identified as relevant to the Jan. 6 committee's investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the subsequent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A district court judge this week twice denied Trump's request to block or delay the release of the documents, ruling that President Joe Biden's decision to not assert privilege over the materials outweighed Trump's efforts to do so as a private citizen.