Trump’s Jan. 6 attack records may reach Congress Friday after another judge’s ruling
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A U.S. judge declined to pause enforcing her own earlier ruling denying Trump's request to block sending White House records to a committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday lost another bid to halt congressional investigators from seeing White House records he wants to keep secret.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declined to put on hold her ruling from Tuesday allowing a House of Representatives committee to obtain Trump White House records relating to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“This court will not effectively ignore its own reasoning,” she wrote.
Trump’s lawyers had asked Chutkan to pause enforcement of her ruling while he appeals it to a higher court. Trump made a similar request to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which has yet to act on his request.
The National Archives, a federal agency that holds Trump’s White House records, is scheduled to give Congress hundreds of pages of documents on Friday, barring a potential order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The case probably will eventually head to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Chutkan’s decision allowed the House committee investigating the attack to access telephone records, visitor logs and other White House documents that Trump wants blocked.
The Republican former president had argued that the materials requested by the committee were covered by a legal doctrine known as executive privilege that protects the confidentiality of some White House communications.