前总统唐纳德·特朗普提起诉讼诉讼周一，他反对1月6日的特别委员会和国家档案馆，因为他试图阻止发布与他在起义前后的通信有关的总统记录。
在诉讼中，特朗普的律师杰西·宾纳尔辩称，该委员会“已决定骚扰特朗普总统”...通过向美国档案管理员发送一个非法的、没有根据的和过度的记录请求。”
宾纳尔还指责美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)拒绝阻止向1月6日的委员会公布特朗普的记录，这是“一种容纳其党派盟友的政治策略”。
“委员会的要求无异于一场无理取闹的非法捕鱼探险，拜登公开表示支持，旨在违宪调查特朗普总统及其政府。我们的法律不允许对前总统和他的亲密顾问采取如此冲动、过分的行动，”宾纳尔写道。
诉讼要求地区法院“宣布委员会的请求无效”，并禁止国家档案馆移交记录。
“至少，法院应该禁止档案管理员出示任何潜在的特权记录，直到特朗普总统能够对所有要求的材料进行全面的特权审查。”
这场诉讼可能会引发一场有争议的斗争，对1月6日调查国会大厦袭击的委员会的工作以及其他前总统对其政府记录行使行政特权的能力都可能产生重大影响。
本月早些时候，拜登下令国家档案馆公布特选委员会认定的记录，特朗普曾试图将其归类为特权通信。在给档案保管员大卫·费里罗的一封信中，白宫法律顾问达纳·雷穆斯说，这些材料应该在通知特朗普后30天内移交，“在没有任何干预的法院命令的情况下。”
莱姆斯写道:“拜登总统已经确定，主张行政特权不符合美国的最大利益，因此就任何文件而言都是不合理的。“这些都是独特而不寻常的情况。国会正在审查由宣誓保护我们的宪法和民主机构的人挑起和煽动的对它们的攻击，正在调查的行为远远超出了关于适当履行总统宪法责任的典型审议。”
尽管尼克松政府之后的最高法院此前裁定，前总统应该在决定是否公布其总统记录方面发挥一定作用，但当现任政府选择否认前总统的特权主张时，这一先例迄今尚未得到检验。
“前总统的明确目标是阻止特别委员会了解1月6日的事实，他的诉讼无非是试图拖延和阻挠我们的调查。先例和法律都站在我们这边。行政特权不是绝对的，拜登总统迄今拒绝援引这一特权。，周一晚上在一份声明中说。“此外，长期以来，当公共利益压倒其他关切时，白宫一直在满足国会的调查要求。很难想象还有比试图获得对我们民主的攻击和试图推翻选举结果的答案更令人信服的公共利益了。”
「专责委员会索取这些纪录的权力是明确的。我们将与前总统阻挠我们调查的企图作斗争，同时继续在其他一些方面成功推进我们的调查，”切尼和汤普森补充道。
Trump sues to block release of Jan. 6 records to Congress
Former President Donald Trump filed alawsuitMonday against the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives as he seeks to block the release of presidential records related to his communications around the insurrection.
In the lawsuit, Trump's attorney Jesse Binnall argues the committee "has decided to harass President Trump ... by sending an illegal, unfounded, and overbroad records request to the Archivist of the United States."
Binnall also accuses President Joe Biden of engaging in "a political ploy to accommodate his partisan allies" by refusing to block the release of Trump's records to the Jan. 6 committee.
"The Committee's request amounts to nothing less than a vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration. Our laws do not permit such an impulsive, egregious action against a former President and his close advisors," Binnall writes.
The lawsuit asks that the district court "invalidate the Committee's requests" and enjoin the National Archives from turning over the records.
"At a bare minimum, the Court should enjoin the Archivist from producing any potentially privileged records until President Trump is able to conduct a full privilege review of all of the requested materials."
The lawsuit could set up a contentious fight with potentially significant ramifications for both the work of the Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol assault and the ability for other former presidents to assert executive privilege over records from their administrations.
Earlier this month, Biden ordered the National Archives to release records identified by the select committee that Trump had sought to classify as privileged communications. In a letter to Archivist David Ferriero, White House counsel Dana Remus said the materials should be handed over within 30 days of notification to Trump, "absent any intervening court order."
"President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents," Remus wrote. "These are unique and extraordinary circumstances. Congress is examining an assault on our Constitution and democratic institutions provoked and fanned by those sworn to protect them, and the conduct under investigation extends far beyond typical deliberations concerning the proper discharge of the President's constitutional responsibilities."
While the Supreme Court following the Nixon administration previously ruled that former presidents should have some role in deciding whether their presidential records should be released, that precedent has so far not been tested when a current administration opts to deny the former president's privilege assertions.
"The former President's clear objective is to stop the Select Committee from getting to the facts about January 6th and his lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to delay and obstruct our probe. Precedent and law are on our side. Executive privilege is not absolute and President Biden has so far declined to invoke that privilege," Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement Monday night. "Additionally, there's a long history of the White House accommodating congressional investigative requests when the public interest outweighs other concerns. It's hard to imagine a more compelling public interest than trying to get answers about an attack on our democracy and an attempt to overturn the results of an election."
"The Select Committee's authority to seek these records is clear. We'll fight the former President's attempt to obstruct our investigation while we continue to push ahead successfully with our probe on a number of other fronts," Cheney and Thompson added.
