Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is urging the Supreme Court to take up former President Donald Trump's case aiming to keep secret records from his presidency about efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection
In a brief filed Friday, Meadows, who is facing a potential criminal contempt charge for failing to comply with the House January 6 committee's subpoena, argued that the Supreme Court should allow former presidents to have a say in the secrecy of the executive branch and that the high court should put limits on what he claimed is an ever-expanding approach to congressional investigations.
Read More"Unless this Court steps in, the Select Committee's investigation will represent the greatest expansion of Congress's power to investigate and target private citizens since the days of the House Un-American Activities Committee," wrote the team defending Meadows, who is a former Republican member of Congress.The federal appeals court in DC that ruled against Trump in December signed off on the legitimacy of the House probe.
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