The appeal comes after the Justice Department sued Navarro, saying he had presidential records on an unofficial email account he used during his previous White House tenure.

The Supreme Court has turned back an appeal from Peter Navarro, the former Trump White House official who is set to return in his second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges.

Peter Navarro, a trade advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, does not want to give the National Archives all his work-related emails from the first Trump administration.

The ruling comes after the Justice Department sued Navarro, saying he had retained presidential records on an unofficial email account.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an effort by Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro to keep his work-related emails during the first Trump administration from the National Archives and Record Administration.

The US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Peter Navarro, the formerly imprisoned official whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into Peter Navarro’s yearslong battle with the government over presidential records, brushing aside an appeal from President-elect Donald Trump’s former trade adviser without hearing from the Biden administration in the case.

Navarro’s legal challenges come as he prepares to return to government service in President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration.