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Donald Trump has suffered another defeat
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Former US President Donald Trump has suffered a final judicial defeat in a dispute over the release of documents to the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Capitol storming.
The US Supreme Court rejected a request by which Trump wanted to prevent the transfer of files from his time in the White House to MPs.
The Supreme Court had already dismissed a corresponding urgent application by the Republican in January.
As a result, the National Archives, where the records are kept, turned over hundreds of pages to the investigating committee.
Now the constitutional judges also rejected Trump's main application.
There was no reason for the judgment.
The law of the current president supersedes that of the previous president
The investigative committee hopes that the documents will provide new insights into the role played by Trump and those around him in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. President Joe Biden therefore agreed to the documents being handed over to the committee.
Trump then went to court, arguing that even as ex-president he enjoyed so-called executive privilege, which enabled him to keep certain documents secret.
The 75-year-old failed in the first and second instance.
A federal appeals court ruled in December that "certainly the right of a past president outweighs that of the incumbent."
In addition, public interest in the documents outweighs Trump's interest.
The ex-president then went before the Supreme Court, but was now defeated as well.
Radical Trump supporters had stormed the Capitol when Biden's victory in the November 2020 presidential election was to be certified there.
The storming of the seat of Congress with five dead caused horror worldwide and is considered a black day in the history of US democracy.
Before the attack, Trump had called on his supporters in an incendiary speech to march to the Capitol and fight "whatever the hell".
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