National Archives transfers contested presidential documents to Jan. 6 committee
By Caroline Vakil - 01/21/22 07:13 PM EST
The National Archives on Thursday evening released to the Jan. 6 committee hundreds of presidential documents that former President Trump sought to shield from the House panel.
"Yesterday evening [National Archives and Records Administration] provided the Select Committee with all the records at issue in the litigation," the agency said in a statement provided to Axios.
The House panel received more than 700 pages of contested documents, The Associated Press reported.
The move comes after the Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a bid by Trump to keep the documents out of the hands of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” the court wrote.
The Supreme Court agreed with a December ruling by the Washington, D.C., federal appeals court.
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