Judge Rejects Trump’s Bid to Keep Papers Secret in Jan. 6 Inquiry

 
Former President Donald J. Trump can assert executive privilege, a judge ruled, but President Biden is not obliged to honor that assertion.

“A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected a bid by former President Donald J. Trump to keep secret papers about his actions and conversations leading up to and during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters.In a 39-page ruling, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that Congress’s constitutional oversight powers to obtain the information prevailed over Mr. Trump’s residual secrecy powers — especially because the incumbent, President Biden, agreed that lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 riot should see the files. ...”

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