Former Lawmakers Urge a Federal Judge to Reject Trump’s Effort to Block Insurrection Investigators From Accessing His Records
Sixty-six former lawmakers, including two dozen Republicans, have signed on to a legal brief urging a federal judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing his White House’s records.
The brief, which is slated to hit the docket in the D.C. federal District Court on Friday, contends that no possible argument about executive privilege could overcome Congress’ need for documents to probe the violent attack on the Capitol — one fueled by Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
“From what is publicly known, it is clear that Donald Trump played an outsized — and likely central — role in orchestrating the events that gave rise to the January 6th attack,” the lawmakers say in the 21-page brief, signed by 24 Republicans and 42 Democrats. “And many, and perhaps most, of the various means he used or contemplated are documented in the records the Committee seeks and are still not known.”
