DOJ sued for hundreds of Peter Navarro's emails. Does it still want them?

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department could tell a federal judge Wednesday whether it is still pursuing hundreds of records from Peter Navarro ’s time as White House trade adviser during the first Trump administration.

The DOJ sued Navarro in 2022 after the National Archives determined he had not turned over copies of hundreds of emails from his personal ProtonMail account that he was required to under the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Navarro refused to turn the records over “absent a grant of immunity,” according to the original complaint, and has fought the subsequent litigation for years. In December, the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of a lower court’s order requiring him to produce the emails.

Although Navarro ultimately turned over approximately 900 records, the govern