Judge to allow release of redacted evidence in Trump's federal election case
Attorneys for Donald Trump argued against the release of additional evidence in the former president's federal election interference case in the lead up to Election Day.
A federal judge on Thursday approved the release of redacted evidence against Donald Trump that support a brief unsealed this month in his federal election case, but allowed the former president seven days to attempt to block the disclosure.
In her order, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, said that prosecutors’ suggested redactions to the brief's appendix “are appropriate, and that Defendant’s blanket objections to further unsealing are without merit.”
Trump's attorneys had argued against "further disclosures" of any part of an appendix, which accompanied an 165-page brief special counsel Jack Smith’s team that was unsealed this month, as early voting gets underway in the presidential election.
Prosecutors had previously argued that the appendix should be publicly released with proposed redactions.
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