The House committee is scheduled to receive the first batch of key documents for the investigation this Friday.
Advocates for the New York tycoon asked the court to temporarily delay the delivery and “maintain the status quo” while pushing for an expedited appeal.
The former president tried to claim executive privilege over the documents and argued that the records must be kept secret “in perpetuity.”
According to the White House, the riots of January 6 are the most serious event that has occurred in the country in recent years, so Trump’s efforts to hide what happened “do not correspond to the best interest of the public. country”.
District of Columbia Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a similar request from Trump’s team earlier this week.
According to Chutkan, “the status quo” in this case is that the National Archives will release the documents on November 12 “in the absence of any intermediate court order.”
His ruling was one of three he has already issued against Trump’s efforts to keep the information secret.
It is a dispute between a former president and a sitting president, and the Supreme Court made it clear that, in such circumstances, greater weight is given to the opinion of the head, he wrote in a 39-page sentence.
Trump also argued that certain witnesses cited by the committee should not respond to questions because of executive privilege.
One of those called to appear, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, is the subject of a criminal referral to the Justice Department for refusing to cooperate.
On January 6, a mob of followers of the New York businessman stormed the headquarters of the United States Congress to try to reverse the victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
The violent incident, in which five people died, was encouraged by the insistent and false claims of the former Republican president about alleged electoral fraud during the November 2020 elections.
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