EXPLOSIVE late-night court filing fomr National Archives details what Trump is trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from obtaining.
They include "daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointments showing White House visitors, activity logs" and records of calls to Trump/Pence.
The records include files drawn from Mark MEADOWS, Stephen MILLER, and hunreds of pages from binders of Kayleigh McAneny.
They also include a draft proclamation marking the deaths of Capitol Police officers. Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.
The first tranche: Meadows, Miller, Philbin, White House logs, call records >>>
The second tranche: McEnany, draft speech to "Save America" march, and "a handwritten note from former Chief
of Staff Mark Meadows’ files listing potential or scheduled briefings and telephone calls
concerning the January 6 certification,"
The third tranche: Talking points on election "irregularities" in Michigan, an email chain from a state official,a document containing "presidential findings" on election integrity.
TRUMP has pressed the National Archives to block 750 of the 1,600 pages identified so far as related to the Jan. 6 investigaiton — it's a far broader attempt by Trump to stifle access than previously known.
The Jan. 6 committee filed its own legal brief tonight too, rejecting Trump's claims of executive privilege as 'weak' and legally unsupported. Upholding them, they say, could impede efforts to prevent a future attack on elections.
The National Archives catalogue of Trump’s Jan. 6-related records is startling, but equally eye-opening is its legal takedown of Trump’s lawsuit. politico.com/news/2021/10/3…
One factor is that presidents have throughout history waived executive privilege on matters of national significance, like Bush post-9/11 — and Trump himself when he decided not to block the Mueller report from coming out. 👀
MORE: Overnight, executive privilege experts filed a persuasive brief arguing that there is literally no scenario in which a former president can override a sitting president’s waiver of privilege.
AND: Trump has no ability to claim attorney-client privilege over advice given to “the office of the president.”
Here’s who filed the brief
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has struck down President Trump's tariff authority, saying his claim of emergency authority to issue sweeping tariffs to America's trading partners was unlawful. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
Roberts, writing for the majority, says Trump's claim of an emergency to issue unbounded tariffs on whoever he feels like flies in the face of decades of law and practice. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
Gorsuch, in his concurrence, worries that granting a president sweeping new powers based on vague delegations from Congress would risk "permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man." supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force.
They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health.
The admin has told different judges different things re the policy. But outgoing spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin did defend the treatment of pregnant women in their custody and added “being in detention is a choice.” Self-deportation, she said, is another.
ICE's policy to sharply limit detention of pregnant/nursing mothers was adopted in 2021. It says ICE shouldn't detain pregnant/nursing mothers unless there are "exceptional circumstances." What are exceptional circumstances? Threats to life or national security. politico.com/news/2026/02/1…
Some people do Friday Zillow. We do Friday habeas. Here are some cases of people who have been detained by ICE and ordered released by judges who said the detention was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Mexican man with no criminal history and six US citizen kids.
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
NEW: A federal judge excoriated the Trump administration for claiming it lacked the resources to give ICE detainees constitutionally required access to lawyers — despite surging law enforcement to detain them in the first place.
The rebuke came as the administration also dropped criminal charges against two men it claimed had attacked an ICE officer, who fired a gun in the fracas. “Newly discovered evidence” conflicted with the original headline-grabbing account, DOJ said. politico.com/news/2026/02/1…
NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.
1) WHISKING DETAINEES TO OTHER STATES: ICE has made a practice of pinballing people from where they're arrested to facilities in Texas, New Mexico or elsewhere, and sometimes more than once. It can complicate or defeate challenges to their detention.
2) BLOWING OFF DEADLINES: When detainees sue for release, the administration is increasingly blowing off court-ordered deadlines to response. It's become almost routine and has led judges to order release in some cases. politico.com/news/2026/02/1…
Two men were recently charged with assaulting an immigration officer in MN with a snow shovel and broom, which led to a shooting ICE claims was defensive. The case made national headlines.
The men moved in court earlier in this week to prevent ICE from deporting witnesses who they say can rebut the charges. Their trial judge, Paul Magnuson, agreed.
However...
One of the witnesses, a 19-year-old woman who appears to be the partner of one of the defendants, was apparently picked up by ICE the same day as the incident and transported first to Texas and then to New Mexico.
Today, a judge in New Mexico noted demanded details about the woman's detention, noting that MN offered her a U visa for witnesses to a criminal investigation and that she's being held under mandatory detention policies that most judges – including Judge Strickland – have ruled unlawful.
UPDATE: Judge Strickland in New Mexico has now further enjoined DHS from relocating or deporting the witness.