Trump asks US Supreme Court to block release of Jan 6 riot files

Former US President Donald Trump has turned to the United States Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to keep documents away from a congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

Trump’s lawyers argued in their petition submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday that the US Constitution and another piece of legislation, the Presidential Records Act, give former presidents “a clear right to protect their confidential records from premature dissemination”.