A US federal appeals court has stayed the release of Donald Trump administration records. A House Select Committee had seeked release of the records from White House for its investigation on the January 6 Capitol riot.
The order came just one day before some of the records are due to be transferred from the National Archives.
The temporary order of postponing of the record issued by a three-judge panel for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Trump a time to continue his legal challenge, reported Xinhua news agency.
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The panel order, which also mentioned the oral arguments over the case for November 30, reads "The purpose of this administrative injunction is to protect the court's jurisdiction to address (Trump's) claims of executive privilege and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits."
Thursday's ruling came one day ahead of the Friday 6 p.m. ET deadline for the Select Committee to receive 46 records, including White House call logs, visitor logs, drafts of speeches and handwritten memos from Trump's then Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
In all, some 700 pages of records are expected to be handed to the House investigators in the coming weeks from the National Archives, which keeps those records.
Trump has been in a legal fight to prevent the release of the records, threatening to exert executive privilege.
President Joe Biden has refused to intervene in the records transfer, denying Trump of his executive privilege in the investigation. The Trump team then sued the Select Committee and the National Archives in the District Court in DC in October.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District Court, however, twice rejected Trump's attempts to keep those records secret on Tuesday and Wednesday, prompting the former President to turn to the DC Circuit to head off the Friday deadline.
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