The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House data requested by a congressional committee in the Capitol storming case. This was reported on Thursday, January 20, by Reuters.
It is noted that the decision means that these documents can be disclosed, despite the ongoing lawsuit over the storming of the administrative building of Congress in January 2021.
Trump’s similar request to the court was rejected on December 9, when the court did not find sufficient grounds to overturn the decision of American leader Joe Biden to transfer materials to a special committee, the agency said.
On December 7, it became known that the US Congressional committee investigating the storming of the Capitol in January demanded data on telephone conversations of more than 100 people, including from the entourage of the former head of the White House, Donald Trump.
Thus, according to CNN, members of the committee plan to establish a connection between Donald Trump’s entourage and the organizers of the rally that turned into an assault.
In November, it became known that a former adviser to former United States President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, was arrested on charges of contempt of the US Congress for refusing to testify to a committee in the storming of the Capitol.
A few days earlier, one of the participants in the storming of the Capitol, Scott Fairlamb, received more than three years in prison for assaulting a police officer, which is currently a record sentence for a participant in the January riots. At the same time, the US Department of Justice specified that, in addition to serving a prison sentence, Fairlembu would also have to pay a fine of $2,000.
In October, Donald Trump sued the House of Representatives committee investigating the storming of the Capitol. The defendants in the statement to the federal court of the District of Columbia were the commission itself, its head Congressman Benny Thompson, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the chief archivist of the United States, David Ferriero.
On January 7, 2021, the US Congress approved the election of Democrat Joe Biden as President of the United States. The procedure took place against the backdrop of unrest in Washington. The day before, on January 6, supporters of then-incumbent President Donald Trump staged a rally, after which they broke into the Capitol building, which disrupted the approval of the results of the presidential elections held in November. Five people, including a policeman, were killed in the riots.
More than 160 criminal cases were later filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Punishment for some charges in connection with the storming of the Capitol can be imprisonment for up to 20 years.
Source: IZ
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