U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS THE RELEASE OF TRUMP'S DOCUMENTS TO THE JAN. 6 PANEL.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: In a rebuff to former U.S. president Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The justices on Wednesday rejected a bid by Trump to withhold the documents from the committee until the issue is finally resolved by the courts. Trump's lawyers had hoped to prolong the court fight and keep the documents on hold.

The House committee already has begun to receive records Trump wanted kept secret, said Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, and Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, the committee chairman and vice chairwoman, respectively.

"The Supreme Court's action tonight is a victory for the rule of law and American democracy," Thompson and Cheney said in a statement pledging to "uncover all the facts about the violence of January 6th and its causes."



The House committee agreed to defer its attempt to get some documents, at the request of the Biden White House. The current administration was concerned that releasing all of the Trump administration documents sought by the committee could compromise national security and executive privilege.

Trump's attorneys had asked the high court to reverse rulings by the federal appeals court in Washington and block the release of the records even after U.S. President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over them.