Trump's lawyers had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit to put Tuesday's lower court ruling
on hold pending an appeal, which they said could be fast-tracked
for a quick ruling.
The three judges on the appeals panel randomly assigned to the
case were all appointed to the judiciary by either President Joe
Biden or former President Barack Obama, both Democrats.
The National Archives, a federal agency that holds Trump's White
House records, had been scheduled to give Congress hundreds of
pages of documents on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's decision on Tuesday allowed
the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the
attack to access telephone records, visitor logs and other White
House documents that Trump wants blocked.
The committee has said it needs the requested materials to
understand the role Trump may have played in fomenting the riot
in which his supporters aimed to block lawmakers from certifying
Biden's presidential win.
The Republican former president had argued that the materials
requested by the committee were covered by a legal doctrine
known as executive privilege https://www.reuters.com/world/us/can-trump-use-executive-privilege-block-jan-6-attack-probe-2021-09-09
that protects the confidentiality of some White House
communications.
But Chutkan rejected that argument in a clear win for
congressional oversight powers.
Four people died on Jan. 6, one shot dead by police and the
other three of natural causes, and more than 100 police officers
were injured in the attack. A Capitol Police officer who had
been attacked by protesters died the next day, and four other
police officers who defended the Capitol later died by suicide.
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe, additional reporting by Susan Heavey;
Editing by Scott Malone, Jonathan Oatis and Howard Goller)
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