Trump Again Petitions SCOTUS Over WH Riot Docs

The Washington Post reports:

Lawyers for former president Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a Washington Post interview with the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol shows the committee is trying to establish a criminal complaint against Trump, something the lawyers say is beyond the committee’s authority.

The lawyers filed a supplemental brief alerting the justices to a Dec. 23 Post article featuring an interview with Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee’s chairman.

In the article, Thompson said the committee is looking intently into Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 as it considers whether to recommend that the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the former president.

Read the full article.

Trump asks Supreme Court to consider Jan. 6 chairman’s interview with Washington Post in bid to block records https://t.co/Hwk0IuPHPK

— Robert Barnes (@scotusreporter) December 29, 2021