In a Monday court order, Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion from Donald Trump’s team to subpoena records they said were missing from the archived records of the January 6 Select Committee. These are records that were reportedly not turned over after the investigation was complete.
Trump’s team, in an October 11 filing, requested permission to issue subpoenas to the Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Committee on House Administration, Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber, General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security Johnathan Meyer, Representative Barry Loudermilk, and Representative Bennie Thompson.
is Chutkan, a shameless partisan appointed by Obama, wrote the 2021 order piercing Trump's exec priv claims to force him to produce presidential records to J6 committee.
There is proof J6 committee has withheld records from Congress–this is what Chutkan wants to conceal: pic.twitter.com/cPl0XJVCB5
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 28, 2023
“According to a letter from Representative Barry Loudermilk, Chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight, however, the Select Committee did not transfer or archive numerous records (collectively the ‘Missing Records’),” the October filing states.
The October filing cites video recordings of transcribed interviews and depositions that had been featured in the Select Committee’s hearings that were not archived or transferred to the Committee on House Administration.
In her Monday filing, Chutkan wrote that “The subpoenas would require federal government officials to produce records related to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.”
The judge said that such pretrial subpoenas must clear three hurdles: relevancy, admissibility, and specificity. Chutkan said that Trump’s team has not met this, saying that “He has not sufficiently justified his requests for either the ‘Missing Materials’ themselves or the other five categories of documents related to them.”
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