There’s nothing Donald Trump likes better than to clog up courts with silly requests and over-the-top demands. He’s been to court so many times now that the average person would have to break a law every day for the rest of their lives to catch up with him before he was President.

Last night was no exception. Late Monday night, Trump’s legal team filed a request for an emergency injunction to prevent the National Archives from sending administration records surrounding the Capitol riots to House investigators in a few days.

It has been an ongoing legal battle to keep the documents away from the Committee responsible for divining the truth about Trump’s involvement in the attack. But having already been impeached for inciting the riots that happened that day, the former president knows that anything at all linking him to planners or coordinators of the attack could invite legal trouble outside of an impeachment that was largely meaningless anyway, due to it happening post-presidency.

Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected the request in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, calling it premature. That stands to reason since it has yet to be determined whether there is anything that shouldn’t be available to the public in the first place — that would occur in the House investigation, for which they need the documents.

Trump had already sued to prevent Congress from seeing hundreds of pages of the Archive records, and Chutkan was due to rule on that request soon. But all indicators were that she would reject that claim, citing the fact that Trump has no executive authority anymore, which was what he based his “right” to shield the papers from investigators on.

10:32pm: Trump files a preemptive "emergency" motion for an injunction blocking the Jan. 6 committee from getting his White House records so he can appeal a hypothetical loss before a district judge (tbc, there is no decision yet)

12:21am: Judge says, that's not how this works pic.twitter.com/EWAFohaIDA

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 9, 2021

Assuming that it would be rejected, Trump lawyers filed this second request last night, this time for an “administrative stay” of whatever she ordered. This prompted Chutkan’s immediate rejection of the injunction since she hasn’t even ruled on the first request yet.

Congress is due to receive the records by Friday.

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