: President Joe Biden and his team recently announced that the insurrectionist violence creates"unique and extraordinary circumstances." As such, the Democratic White House has given the National Archives the green light to release materials — phone records, visitor logs, internal communications, etc. — to the congressional panel investigating the attack., Trump's lawyers filed suit in the hopes of keeping the documents hidden.
The Republican's new lawsuit is intended to get a court order that would prohibit the National Archives from cooperating with the committee's investigation. All of which is to say, the"memo" served as a reminder of the kind of seriousness with which the former president is approaching the issue., though its existence is nevertheless remarkable. It's one thing for Trump to try to put a twisted spin on the historical record; it's something else for Trump to try to prevent officials from putting together a historical record.
For their part, the committee's chair, Democrat Bennie Thompson, and its vice chair, Republican Liz Cheney, issuedlate yesterday that read in part,"The former President's clear objective is to stop the Select Committee from getting to the facts about January 6th and his lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to delay and obstruct our probe.... The Select Committee's authority to seek these records is clear.
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