WASHINGTON A federal judge late Tuesday denied Donald Trump s attempt to block the release of hundreds of pages of documents from his presidency to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol .

Plaintiff is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his claims or suffer irreparable harm, and because a balance of the equities and public interest bear against granting his requested relief, wrote U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Less than two hours after her ruling, Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop Fridays scheduled release of the first batch of documents by the National Archives to the committee.