Date uploaded: 2021-11-11 22:11:48
A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court agreed Thursday to temporarily block the release of former President Donald Trump's administration documents, which a House panel subpoenaed in its investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
The decision came as the National Archives and Records Administration was scheduled to release the documents by 6 p.m. Friday. The House committee sought the documents for its probe of what led to the attack and what happened that day.
But Trump has sought to block the committee's access to the documents by arguing the release would violate executive privilege and the expectation that his communications were confidential.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins and Ketanji Brown Jackson blocked the National Archives from providing the documents to the House panel while the panel considers Trump's claims of executive privilege. Trump's written arguments are due in the case Nov. 16. The House and the National Archives are due to respond Nov. 22. Oral arguments are set for Nov. 30.
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