The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday opened the way for Donald Trump’s official White House communications and communications records to be submitted to the House of Representatives Special Committee of Inquiry on January 6, 2021, which is conducting an investigation focused on the former in the attack on the Federal Capitol.
The court rejected, with eight votes in nine, the former president’s attempt to defend the confidentiality of the White House files, with a brief appeal that did not explain his motives.
The hundreds of pages of the archives include, among others, lists of people who visited or contacted him on January 6, 2021 and notes kept during these exchanges.
The ruling of the Supreme Court is a crucial victory for the special committee of inquiry of the House of Representatives, which has been involved in a judicial guerrilla war with the former head of state, his relatives and close associates.
Its members, most of them Democrats, are seeking to establish the role of the stormy tycoon in the attack on thousands of his supporters in Congress, in order to prevent the formal validation of the victory of his opponent, Joe Biden, in the presidential election. of 2020.
The committee is in a race against time, as it wants to make every effort to make its findings public before the November midterm elections. As if the Republicans regain control of the US lower house in the upcoming elections, it is considered a given that they will dissolve it and bury its work.
Donald Trump, who remains a dominant figure in the Republican camp and has ruled out re-running the presidency in 2024, has sought to block its work, citing the executive branch’s privilege of protecting the confidential nature of communications. of.
According to him, this privilege applies even to former presidents. Nevertheless, federal courts rejected his appeal, noting that the current executive did not consider it necessary to use the privilege to protect its own files.
The Supreme Court – three members of which were appointed by Donald Trump – upheld their rulings.
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