Donald Trump Loses Supreme Court Bid To Block White House Records From January 6 Committee

Almost a year to the day after President Donald Trump left office, the Supreme Court just dealt the former Celebrity Apprentice host a potentially crippling blow.

With only Justice Clarence Thomas in opposition, the High Court on Wednesday denied Trump’s request for an injunction to stop the release of hundreds of pages of White House records to the Congressional committee investigating the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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“The application for stay of mandate and injunction pending review presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the conservative-dominated SCOTUS said in its ruling over the quasi-constitutional question posed by Trump’s lawyers after they struck out previously in two lower courts. “Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” Chief Justice John Roberts, three Trump appointees and four other justices added (read the ruling here).

This ruling comes on an already busy day in D.C. with President Joe Biden giving a sprawling, sometimes meandering but long overdue press conference and the Senate battling over certain-to-fail voting rights legislation. Looking to overshadow Biden and the Senate, the decision by the Supreme Court now gives the green light to more than 700 pages of relevant documents heading to the January 6 committee as soon as possible.

Having called a number of Trump aides and sidekicks as witnesses in recent weeks, the Democrat-dominated January 6 committee has been seeking the documents in question for months. The aim is to pull back the curtain on what Trump and his top aides knew, what he said and who he said it to as a throng of MAGA supporters rampaged through the Capitol as the results of the 2020 election were being certified.

Maneuvering for a likely 2024 run for the White House and still holding much of the GOP in his grasp, Trump had argued that the committee had no legitimate reason to want to see the paperwork from his administration.

As prosecutors in New York State and elsewhere probe deeper into Trump’s business and legal affairs, the top level of American justice disagreed with the 45th POTUS’ POV.

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