Archives to turn over a tranche of Trump's White House records to the Jan.6 committee tomorrow/6pm

[Budi]

New: The Archives intends to turn over a tranche of Trump's White House records to the Jan. 6 committee tomorrow at 6pm, per DOJ letter. These docs weren't covered by the DC Circuit's admin stay, and SCOTUS hasn't acted on Trump's emergency request yet https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21181643/1-18-22-nara-letter-trump.pdf


The last paragraph in the pdf states that,
National Archives plans to send a few pages of Trump WH records to House Jan. 6 committee at 6PM tomorrow over Trump's objections, unless a court steps in, a new legal filing says.

SC has till 6pm et wednesday Jan 19th to stop the release from Nat'l Archives.
Zoe Tillman discusses it further at her twitter link.
What are the odds ...😬

Link to tweet

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Bookmarking

This post, along with all the others, will either prove correct, or age poorly.

[Budi]

3. It states that Trump has till 6pm et to hope a court stops the Archive release.

It's now simply a waiting game.

ZoeTillman
A clarification that will probably only matter to me and a handful of legal Twitter folks, but the DC Circuit issued an administrative injunction, not a stay (they enjoined the Archives from acting, they didn't stay a district court order)


Why do they send out these notices reminding him he still has time to act?

Senator_William_Murray
@SenatorMurray
It's Procedural. If they don't follow the procedure properly, Trump could claim they failed to notify him properly and would no doubt claim it was a conspiracy

The court could step in or simply let the deadline pass.
We wait.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. Something ALWAYS Swoops In Last Minute To Save Him

I’ll wait to see the documents actually turned over before making any assumptions.

[Budi]

5. No one is making assumptions. Just stating a fact of what's on the line for 6pm on Jan 19th

[Tribetime]

6. Im with you...hoping but waiting

[Budi]

7. 👍 The Archive docs are the holy grail for the Jan6 Committee

I hope the court just sits this one out, but that 11th hour is always the tough one.

We wait.

[dchill]

2. Why not 6 AM?

[leftieNanner]

8. He's not awake at that hour!

Hair? Makeup?

Really?

[leftieNanner]

9. His lawyers will be at the courthouse at 5:59

Obstruct and delay.

[Budi]

10. Yup. That's the general expectation I believe.

Trump has his loyalists well placed.

But still, its not over till its over. And we are a hopeful bunch nonetheless.
It's a long way to 6pm tomorrow.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Small number of Trump-era White House documents set to be turned over to January 6 committee

This makes me smile

Link to tweet

The National Archives plans to release four pages of Trump-era White House documents to the House on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first time the committee that's investigating the January 6 riot would get records that former President Donald Trump wants to keep secret.

As the agency that holds all of the Trump White House records, the Archives notified the courts of the imminent turnover in a filing on Tuesday night.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block the release of hundreds of pages of records related to January 6, arguing the documents are protected by executive privilege. The Biden White House, however, supports releasing the records to the House select committee, after determining the disclosure is in the nation's best interest and declining to assert executive privilege.

The Supreme Court has not yet acted.