Former President Donald Trump filed a motion on Thursday to halt the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol.
A lot of internal White House documents related to the Capitol riot’s planning and response are expected to be released to a House select committee on Friday. A federal judge denied Trump’s appeal to prevent the release of those documents.
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Trump has asked the D.C. Court of Appeals for a “brief pause in the production” of those documents in a new court filing. The filing claims that releasing the documents will cause the former president “irreparable harm.”
The appeals court has temporarily halted the release of the documents while it considers Trump’s latest motion.
Trump previously used executive privilege to sue the House committee seeking documents related to the attack, which left five officers dead and more than 140 injured. On Wednesday, Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Trump’s appeal.
“This court will not effectively ignore its own reasoning in denying injunctive relief in the first place to grant injunctive relief now,” Chutkan wrote.
In a separate lawsuit filed last month against the committee and the National Archives, Trump invoked executive privilege in an attempt to halt the transfer of his records.
President Joe Biden previously declined to invoke executive privilege on the majority of Trump’s records, determining that doing so would be “not in the best interests of the United States.”
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To explain Biden’s decision not to assist Trump in keeping his records secret, White House counsel Dana Remus wrote that the documents could “shed light on events within the White House on and about Jan. 6 and bear on the Select Committee’s need to understand what led to the most serious attack on the Federal Government’s operations.”
