The Block

The committee demanded the ex-president's testimony and access to several documents in their investigation of the 6 January riot.

[granted an extension](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/04/capitol-attack-panel-donald-trump-extension-subpoena) to comply with the documents request until this week, though [an exhibit](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.623513/gov.uscourts.flsd.623513.1.4.pdf) attached to the suit on Friday claimed that the former president found no records about communications he placed or received on January 6 on non government-owned devices. [transmitted a historic subpoena](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/trump-subpoena-testify-jan-6-committee) to Trump and his lawyers making sweeping demands for documents and testimony, raising the stakes in the highly charged congressional investigation into the Capitol attack. [former president](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) to delay compliance with [the sprawling subpoena](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/trump-subpoena-testify-jan-6-committee), in an effort that could culminate in a constitutional showdown with the House of Representatives before the US supreme court. The legal action comes just days before the subpoena summoned Trump to appear for a deposition on 14 November and before he is expected to The former president, though, could then launch an appeal to the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit, and then further appeal to the supreme court – at which point the select committee might no longer exist, since it expires at the end of the current congressional term in January. Donald Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit seeking to block the House January 6 select committee’s subpoena demanding testimony in the investigation into Capitol attack, according to court documents and a statement on Friday night, setting up a legal battle over the extent of executive power.