Trump sues to keep his White House records from January 6 panel

Bloomberg

Former president Donald Trump sued to block the release of documents to the U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, arguing that lawmakers have made an over-broad request for presidential records.
In the complaint filed in federal court in Washington, Trump asked a judge to stop the national archivist from releasing the records to Congress. The national archivist told Trump the records would be turned over to the committee on Nov. 12, “absent any intervening court order,” according to the complaint.
“The committee’s requests are unprecedented in their breadth and scope and are untethered from any legitimate legislative purpose,” Trump said in the complaint.
The White House said last week that it wouldn’t support Trump’s efforts to block the National Archives from turning over the tranche of records to Congress.
The select committee’s chairman, Bennie Thompson a Mississippi Democrat, and Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and the panel’s vice chair, responded in a statement that “precedent and law are on our side.”
“The select committee’s authority to seek these records is clear,” they said. “We’ll fight the former president’s attempt to obstruct our investigation while we continue to push ahead successfully with our probe on a number of other fronts.”
The committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has already subpoenaed documents and testimony from former Trump advisers, including political strategist Steve Bannon and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. In addition, the committee asked the National Archives to turn over White House documents provided to Trump or Meadows with terms such as “rigged” election or “stealing” the election.