(CNN) 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 -- as he, like Trump, tries to evade a House select committee's investigation into the attack on the US Capitol. In his lawsuit, Trump claimed executive privilege should allow him to block the select committee from getting some of the documents from the National Archives, the custodian of his administration's White House records. President Joe Biden has diverged from Trump's claims and decided the Archives should hand over the documents. "What sets this case apart is the undisputed fact that, under the Presidential Records Act, President Biden has no authority to disclose President Trump's records on his own, just as under the Constitution, Congress has no authority to compel the production of the privileged material," said Meadows' amicus brief, from his legal team at the law firm McGuireWoods. Meadows' brief also dings the House committee for its members who have publicly discussed the possibility of criminal referrals emerging from their probe.

Source: CNN January 08, 2022 23:32 UTC