Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday in DC District Court against the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and the National Archives in an effort to keep records from his presidency secret by claiming executive privilege.
The lawsuit from Trump is an attempt to block the work of the House committee as it attempts to investigate his actions before and during the siege of the Capitol. The court action also marks his latest effort in a long and thorny several years of fighting requests from the Democratic-controlled US House.
The Biden administration has declined to assert executive privilege over a first tranche of Trump-era records.
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