Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules

The House panel should immediately release the documents to the full house and the public. Congress is the people’s house. Executive privilege arguments are bullshit. The people don’t owe that specious argument one minute’s consideration.

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.

The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.