WASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.
Capitol can access some White House records from the day of the insurrection, denying former President Donald Trump’s efforts to keep them out of the committee’s hands.U.S.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan in the District of Columbia issued her order Tuesday, saying Trump’s request to block the access was denied without prejudice.
Some of the committee’s requests dating back to April 2020 "are alarmingly broad," Chutkan previously said. But she disagreed with claims by Trump’s lawyers that Congress did not have a legislative purpose for getting Trump’s call logs, talking points and other notes from Jan.