The Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Associated Press reports.
Trump’s attorneys had asked the court to reverse a ruling by a lower federal appeals court in Washington that said Trump did not have the right to assert executive privilege over the documents after President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over them.
The ruling from the Supreme Court came in an unsigned, one-paragraph order on Wednesday. Clarence Thomas was the lone justice who said he would have granted Trump’s request to keep the documents on hold.
This means the National Archives is cleared to turn over the requested documents to the Jan. 6 House committee.
They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes about Jan. 6 from former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
