Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block Turnover of Jan. 6 Records (2)

Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the release of his White House papers to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, confronting the court with the fallout from the riot for the first time.

Trump is seeking to override President Joe Biden’s decision to waive executive privilege over the documents. A federal appeals court said Biden’s stance and Congress’s need for the documents combined to outweigh Trump’s claim of secrecy.

The attack, which grew out of Trump’s efforts to overturn the presidential election results, took place as Congress was meeting to certify ...