Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from on (#5RQJJ)
Trump lawyers vow to appeal move, which would allow transmission of documents as soon as this week
A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.
The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives, the federal agency holding Trump's White House materials, to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.
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