In response to a request from former president Donald Trump, a federal appeals court has temporarily delayed the release of White House records related to the Capitol insurrection, which was set to begin Friday.
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday granted an administrative stay sought by Trump. The stay is intended to give the court time to consider Trump's arguments against release of the documents, which was otherwise scheduled for Friday without a court order," ABC News reports. "The appeals court set arguments in the case for Nov. 30."
Trump is appealing a decision from Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who rejected Trump's claim that the documents are protected by executive privilege — writing that "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President."
"In a 15-page emergency motion filed Thursday, Trump's attorneys asked to keep the documents secret for now, and proposed that all sides brief the court by next week on whether to keep them so for the weeks or months an appeal may take to decide," the Washington Post reports. "Trump's legal team said the case presented serious, novel questions about whether a former president can sue a successor to withhold government records from Congress, and that the institution of the presidency would be irreparably harmed if the documents were released beginning Friday as planned."
The House select committee investigating the insurrection is seeking access to Trump's call logs, draft speeches and other documents related to Jan. 6.
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