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Former U.S. President Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to keep documents away from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol led by his supporters.

Trump's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to reverse lower court rulings against the former president, who has fought to block the records even after President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over them. The federal appeals court in Washington previously ruled the committee had a 鈥渦niquely vital interest鈥 in the documents and Trump had 鈥減rovided no basis鈥 for it to override Biden and Congress.

The records include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts, handwritten notes 鈥渃oncerning the events of January 6鈥 from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and 鈥渁 draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity,鈥 according to a previous court filing from the National Archives.

Trump's filing came on the day that an administrative injunction issued by the appeals court was set to otherwise expire. That injunction, preventing the release of records, will remain in place for now. Lawyers for the House committee asked the Supreme Court later Thursday to expedite its processes and consider the case as soon as mid-January.

鈥淭he Select Committee needs the requested documents now to help shape the direction of the investigation and allow the Select Committee to timely recommend remedial legislation,鈥 lawyers for the committee wrote.

Repeating arguments they made before lower courts, Trump's attorneys wrote Thursday that the case concerned all future occupants of the White House.

Former presidents had 鈥渁 clear right to protect their confidential records from premature dissemination,鈥 Trump's lawyers said.

鈥淐ongress cannot engage in meandering fishing expeditions in the hopes of embarrassing President Trump or exposing the President's and his staff's sensitive and privileged communications `for the sake of exposure,鈥' they added.

The House committee has said the records are vital to its investigation into the run-up to the deadly insurrection aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Before and after the riot, Trump promoted false theories about election fraud and suggested that the 鈥渞eal insurrection鈥 was on Election Day, when he lost to Biden in an election certified by officials from both parties as fair.

The case was widely expected to reach the Supreme Court, which has decided several previous fights over Trump's records. Trump appointed three of the court's nine justices.

The court earlier this year refused to stop his tax records from going to a New York prosecutor's office as part of an investigation. It did prevent Congress last year, while Trump was in office, from obtaining banking and financial records for him and members of his family.

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