A major question in the dispute is how much authority a former president has to assert executive privilege.
Tuesday to honor his claim that executive privilege should prevent the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol from obtaining scores of White House documents.
The committee sought the records from the National Archives because it maintains all documents from past administrations. Trump asserted executive privilege over some of the material, butsaid the records should be released to Congress, citing the importance of the committee's work. Trump's lawyers said Chutkan wrongly concluded that a sitting president has the sole power to decide when a claim of executive privilege should be honored.
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