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By Feb. 6, 2022, the Jan. 6 inquiry was increasingly centered on presidential records and executive-privilege disputes as the committee pressed for materials from the Trump White House.
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By Feb. 6, 2022, the Jan. 6 inquiry was increasingly centered on presidential records and executive-privilege disputes as the committee pressed for materials from the Trump White House.
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By Feb. 6, 2022, the Jan. 6 inquiry was increasingly centered on presidential records and executive-privilege disputes as the committee pressed for materials from the Trump White House.
The broader January 6 records battle kept cutting against Trump’s effort to seal off White House documents from investigators. By this point, the Supreme Court had already rejected his bid to block the National Archives from turning over records, and the committee had begun receiving the material it wanted. The practical result was that Trump’s privilege claims looked weaker by the day, and his effort to bury the pa…
After the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s emergency bid on Jan. 19, 2022, the National Archives began turning over records to the House Jan. 6 committee on Jan. 20. The executive-privilege fight continued, but the immediate effort to block disclosure was over.
On Jan. 11, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee’s records request was still in motion, but Trump had not yet filed his Jan. 18 executive-privilege letter and the Supreme Court had not yet acted.
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