WASHINGTON: The US judge will hear the argument by lawyer Donald Trump on Thursday that hundreds of pages of his white house records must be detained from the representative home committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots with the mass of supporters.
The US District Judge Tanya Ching will consider the argument of the former Republican president that a telephone call record, visitor log, and other materials requested by the Democratic Committee must be kept confidential.
The scheduled trial will start at 11am ET (1500 GMT).
Trump on October 18 sued the committee select nine members, on the grounds that the material requested was covered by a legal doctrine known as executive privileges that protected the confidentiality of the White House Communication.
Trump left the office on January 20.
“The demand for committees has never happened before in the extent and their scope and is not occupied from legislative purposes,” Write a Trump Jesse Binall’s lawyer in the lawsuit.
The committee asks for materials from US national archives, who hold notes.
Democrat Representative Bennie Thompson, Chair of the Committee, and Representative of the Republic of Liz Cheney, deputy chest, said in a statement after submitting a lawsuit that Trump tried to “delay and block” investigations.
“It’s hard to imagine a more interesting public interest than trying to get answers about attacks on our democracy and efforts to cancel the election results,” Cheney and Thompson said.
Trump gave a burner speech before the deadly riot repeated false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from it through widespread polling fraud and urged its supporters to go to the Capitol and “fight like” stealing.
“His supporters invaded the Capitol in an effort that failed to prevent Congress from advancing the victory of the Democratic presidential election formally Joe Biden.
The Committee said the material was needed to understand the role that might be played Trump in triggering riots.
It was said that demand was in his power and was driven by legislative purposes and driven by legislature What is clear to understand the facts and causes around riots and develop laws to maintain a similar attack in the future.
About 700 people face criminal charges from riots.
Houses on October 21 chose to hold the main strategy of Trump Steve Bannon in the insults of the Congress because refused to work together with the investigation.
Bannon refused to comply with Committee Subpoenas documents and his testimony, citing the insistence of Trump – debated by several legal scholars – that his communication was protected by executive privileges.
The Ministry of Justice must now stand An whether to present criminal charges against Bannon.