Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday targeting the Jan. 6 House select committee as he tries to keep documents and information from being released.
The suit – which names the National Archives – cites presidential "executive privilege" as the reason the White House should keep the records secret. Trump filed the case in a Washington, D.C. district court.
The former president has repeatedly attempted to prevent former advisors and aides from testifying by casting a wide net of "privilege,"
President Biden waived that assertion on the first cache of federal records compiled in response to the House committee's requests. Trump's lawsuit called it "a political ploy to accommodate his partisan allies."
"The Committee's request amounts to nothing less than a vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration," Trump's lawyers argued in court filings, according to Axios.
"The Committee's requests are unprecedented in their breadth and scope and are untethered from any legitimate legislative purpose," the suit stated.
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