A federal judge denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a preliminary injunction to keep the National Archives from handing over documents to the Jan. 6 House committee.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., handed down the decision on Tuesday in the lawsuit brought last month by Trump against the House and National Archives in which he seeks to claim executive privilege over more than 700 records.
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“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” the judge wrote. The ruling came hours after Chutkan shot down an emergency request Trump filed late Monday night seeking an “administrative stay.”
President Joe Biden’s White House has declined to intervene in support of Trump, and, as it stands, the National Archives is poised to deliver the first batch of documents requested by the panel on Friday.
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Trump counsel Jesse Binnall, who has argued Friday would be “before judicial review is complete and before President Trump has had the opportunity to be fully and fairly heard,” previously signaled the former president would “promptly appeal” if the judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction.
Trump’s team filed a notice of appeal roughly 30 minutes after the judge’s ruling Tuesday. The case is likely to make its way to the Supreme Court.
