One watchdog group said the U.S. Supreme Court's denial of former President Donald Trump's attempt to conceal records from the House panel investigating Jan. 6 is 'a huge win for transparency.'
The documents include activity logs, schedules, speech notes, and three pages of handwritten notes from then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows—paperwork that could reveal goings-on inside the West Wing as Trump supporters gathered in Washington and then overran the Capitol, disrupting the certification of the 2020 vote.
Trump is also seeking to keep secret a draft proclamation honoring two police officers who died in the siege and memos and other documents about supposed election fraud and efforts to overturn Trump's loss of the presidency, the National Archives has said in court documents. The House committee wants the records to better understand Trump's role in the January 6 attack. The former president's"Big Lie" about the 2020 election, including at a rally just before a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, led to Trump's historic second impeachment.
While Trump tried to use executive privilege to prevent the documents from reaching the panel, President Joe Biden declined to invoke the same doctrine,Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred with the majority opinion on Wednesday but also made clear that he disagrees with a federal appeals court's suggestion that a former president may not invoke privilege for communications during their tenure if the current president does not support the claim—though the Trump appointee added that allowing...
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