Unless the Supreme Court intervenes on former President Donald Trump’s behalf, a US House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol will soon know a lot more about the Trump White House’s involvement in this attack.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court held that the January 6 committee may obtain records that Trump wants to keep away from this investigation. That leaves the Supreme Court, where a third of the seats are occupied by Trump’s own appointees, as Trump’s last recourse in his bid to keep whatever is in these records secret.