Trump turns to the US Supreme Court to hide the documents of the assault on the Capitol

The former president of the United States Donald Trump (2017-2021) presented this Thursday an appeal before the Supreme Court to keep hidden about 700 documents on the assault on Capitol on January 6, in which five people died.

Trump wants to prevent the US National Archives, which has custody of those documents, from turning them over to the House committee investigating the event.

The exact content of those documents is unknown, but supposedly and the days that surrounded that event.

In their appeal, the attorneys for Trump they defend that he “is not just any citizen” and that, as a former president, he enjoys special rights recognized in the doctrine of “executive privilege”, which means that certain information cannot be disclosed without your permission.

TrumpHowever, he is no longer president, so so far all the judges who have considered the case have determined that He no longer enjoys that “executive privilege.”

“If there is no judicial intervention, the former president Trump will suffer irreparable damage ”, his legal team alleges in the appeal.

The case dates back to early October, when US President Joe Biden authorized the National Archives to hand over the documents to the committee investigating the assault.

A few days later, on October 18, Trump He filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Washington DC, but in November a judge of that instance ruled against him.

The attorneys of Trump They appealed that ruling and went to the appeals court for the District of Columbia, which also dismissed the memory, making the Supreme Court their last option.

The Supreme Court is made up of nine judges, of whom six are considered conservative and three are considered progressive. Additionally, Trump named three of the conservatives: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

The committee that claims the documents was created by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, and is made up of a majority of Democratic congressmen, although there are two Republican members – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who are at odds with Trump.

Your mission is to investigate why the assault occurred, who was responsible, and what can be done to prevent another similar event.

For that purpose, it has requested access to previously secret documents, such as those of Trump, and has summoned former members of his government to testify, including the controversial ideologue and his former adviser Steve Bannon, who refused to testify and has been charged with criminal contempt.

On January 6, some 10,000 people – most of them Trump supporters – marched towards the Capitol and some 800 broke into the building to prevent Biden’s victory over Trump from being ratified in the November 2020 elections.

Five people died and about 140 officers were attacked.

_________________________________