The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments Tuesday from lawyers for Trump and the House committee seeking the records as part of its investigation into the riot.<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Former President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to stop Congress from receiving call logs, drafts of speeches and other documents related to the Jan.6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol led by his supporters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments Tuesday from lawyers for Trump and the House committee seeking the records as part of its investigation into the riot. Trump\u2019s attorneys want the court to reverse a federal judge\u2019s ruling allowing the National Archives and Records Administration to turn over the records after President Joe Biden waived executive privilege. Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump\u2019s claims that he could exert executive privilege overriding Biden, noting in part, \u201cPresidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not president.\u201d The appeals court issued an administrative stay after Chutkan\u2019s ruling to review the case. Democratic presidents nominated all three judges who will hear arguments Tuesday. Patricia Millett and Robert Wilkins were nominated by President Barack Obama, and Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Biden appointee. Given the stakes of the case, either side is likely to appeal to the Supreme Court. In their appeal to the circuit court, Trump\u2019s lawyers said they agreed with Chutkan that presidents were not kings. \u201cTrue, but in that same vein, Congress is not Parliament \u2014 a legislative body with supreme and unchecked constitutional power over the operations of government,\u201d they wrote. Trump has argued that records of his deliberations on Jan.6 must be withheld to protect executive privilege for future presidents and that the Democrat-led House is primarily driven by politics. The House committee\u2019s lawyers rejected those arguments and called Trump\u2019s attempts to assert executive privilege \u201cunprecedented and deeply flawed.\u201d \u201cIt is difficult to imagine a more critical subject for Congressional investigation, and Mr. Trump\u2019s arguments cannot overcome Congress\u2019s pressing need,\u201d the committee\u2019s lawyers said.<\/p>\n