Former President Donald Trump has appealed to the Supreme Court in his effort to prevent the Jan. 6 committee from receiving records from his presidency.

Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., which found that he did not have the standing to prevent the committee from obtaining hundreds of pages of documents they are seeking in their investigation into this year’s Capitol riot.

Trump is asserting that the 800 or so pages of records should be kept sealed by the National Archives because of executive privilege. President Joe Biden, though, has rejected Trump's claims of executive privilege and has endorsed the congressional committee’s inquiry into the deadly event.

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"The congressional request is untethered from any valid legislative purpose and exceeds the authority of Congress under the Constitution and the Presidential Records Act,” Trump’s lawyer, Jesse R. Binnall, wrote in Thursday’s court filing. “Despite clear precedent and the unambiguous dictates of statute, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Committee’s broad requests and refused to honor President Trump’s well-established claims of executive privilege.”

The lower appeals court ruled earlier this month that on matters of asserting executive privilege when a sitting and former president are in dispute over whether to release White House records, the sitting president’s request wins out.

Lawyers in the House have said the Jan. 6 committee, which comprises seven Democrats and two Republicans, requires the archived records “to complete a thorough investigation into how the actions of the former president, his advisers, and other government officials may have contributed to the attack on Congress to impede the peaceful transfer of presidential power.”

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After the appeals court’s 3-0 ruling against Trump, they gave the former president two weeks to petition the high court in the matter. The Supreme Court has a conservative majority, with Trump successfully seating three of the nine justices during his single term in office.