Trump sues Jan. 6 committee to avoid testifying in the investigation

Former President Donald Trump filed a suit Friday nighttime to debar cooperating with a subpoena from the House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump's lawyers reason that portion "other Presidents and erstwhile Presidents person voluntarily agreed to attest oregon crook implicit documents successful effect to a legislature subpoena, nary President oregon erstwhile President has ever been compelled to bash so," according to the 41-page filing.

Trump was issued a subpoena by the committee successful October and was scheduled to beryllium deposed connected Nov. 14, a time earlier his "big announcement" connected Nov. 15 astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort, wherever helium is wide expected to denote the motorboat of his 2024 statesmanlike campaign.

Trump lawyer David A. Warrington said Trump has engaged successful a "good religion effort" to resoluteness concerns with the committee, but that helium has been near with "no choice" but to impact the judicial branch, according to a connection archetypal obtained by Politico.

"Long-held precedent and signifier support that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to attest earlier it," Warrington said.

The House prime committee voted unanimously connected the subpoena and is demanding Trump's grounds nether oath arsenic good arsenic records applicable to the probe into the attack.

"We admit that a subpoena to a erstwhile President is simply a important and historical action," the panel's leaders wrote Trump successful a letter. "We bash not instrumentality this enactment lightly."

The committee is seeking records that see documentation of telephone calls, substance messages, oregon communications sent done the encrypted messaging app Signal, arsenic good arsenic photos, videos and handwritten notes applicable to the scope of the probe.

In the suit, Trump's attorneys reason that sources different than Trump could supply the committee with the aforesaid information, and they assertion the subpoena is "incredibly broad" and infringes connected his First Amendment rights.

The committee is slated to dissolve astatine the year's end, which means the suit and ensuing ineligible conflict volition apt outlive the committee itself. It volition beryllium hard for the sheet to unafraid Trump's grounds earlier then.

Trump's suit was filed successful the Southern District of Florida and has not yet been assigned to a judge.