Donald Trump would like the Supreme Court to turn its attention to The Washington Post. The former president on Wednesday seemed to believe that the outlet’s interview with Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the January 6 House select committee, will help convince the high court to take up his case as he attempts to keep committee investigators from gaining access to a massive cache of information from his administration. On December 23, Thompson suggested to the Post that Trump’s delay in telling supporters to leave the U.S. Capitol could factor in to a criminal referral to the Justice Department. “That dereliction of duty causes us real concern,” he told the Post. “And one of those concerns is that whether or not it was intentional, and whether or not that lack of attention for that longer period of time would warrant a referral.” A criminal referral against a former president, the Post noted in the article, would be “historic,” and Thompson’s comment was significant, given that he had “not previously discussed the issue or what information will be key to making the decision.” But a former federal prosecutor interviewed in the article also raised the concern that a criminal referral “wouldn’t be telling Justice anything that it didn’t know,” and risked emboldening those who have accused the committee of conducting a politically motivated persecution.