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Star TribuneCongress asks federal judge not to let Bush administration send disputed records to Archives
By JESSE J. HOLLAND , Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The new Congress on Thursday asked a federal judge to force the Bush White House to keep documents on the controversial firings of nine federal prosecutors instead of turning them over to the National Archives.
Congressional Democrats have been fighting in court to get the documents from the administration for months, and they want to make sure they don't disappear into the National Archives. They asked U.S. District Judge John Bates to order the administration to leave the documents at the White House in the custody of President-elect Barack Obama's aides in case the information is needed.
Justice Department lawyers argued that the White House is required to turn the material over to the National Archives.
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