D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has denied former President Donald Trump's motion to subpoena records from the House of Representatives' Jan. 6 committee, arguing that his requests are like a fishing expedition.
President Trump's initial motion from Oct. 11 requested purportedly "Missing materials" that the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 had allegedly failed to preserve and transfer to another congressional committee.
Fox News reported in August that Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, accused the select committee of failing to provide certain communications with the Biden administration, as well as video recordings of depositions and interviews leveraged by the select committee.
"As the missing records are currently unavailable, the requested subpoenas would not be duplicative of any other records either publicly available or produced in discovery."
Issued on Nov. 27, the order comes 10 days after Judge Chutkan denied President Trump's request to strike certain "Inflammatory" statements related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, from the DOJ's indictment.
The requested subpoenas targeted the Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration, the Jan. 6 select committee, White House and Homeland Security Department attorneys, and Mr. Loudermilk, select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
"Accordingly, the Select Committee did not have the opportunity to properly archive that material with the rest of its records with the benefit of the Executive Branch's guidance to ensure witness safety, our national security, and law enforcement sensitive information."
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