Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case rules additional evidence will be unsealed Friday
Source: ABC News
October 17, 2024, 8:45 PM
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's federal election interference case, in an order late Thursday, denied the former president's last-minute request to block the release of additional evidence gathered by special counsel Jack Smith.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that the court will unseal, on Friday, the redacted appendix from the immunity motion filed earlier this month by Smith that included new details about Trump and his allies' actions leading up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
In ruling that the evidence would be publicly released, Chutkan pushed back on Trump's argument that the release was politically motivated to influence the 2024 presidential election.
"There is undoubtedly a public interest in courts not inserting themselves into elections, or appearing to do so. But litigation's incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court's intentional interference with them," Chutkan wrote in her order. "As a result, it is in fact Defendant's requested relief that risks undermining that public interest: If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute -- or appear to be -- election interference."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-asks-judge-jan-6-case-delay-release/story?id=114892192
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.265.0_3.pdf
hlthe2b
(105,662 posts)If so, did they rule?
notroot
(120 posts)It's the prosecution's work, and their choice to redact. If he thought it would benefit him, Trump would have demanded it be unsealed, like he did in the Florida espionage case. Either way, I think the judge has sole discretion.
notroot
(120 posts)BOSSHOG
(39,304 posts)Withholding the release at the request of a candidate does constitute election interference. Not committing crimes works real good too Donald. Not committing numerous crimes would help your cause even more. Not being convicted of 34 felonies would be helpful. Not being a serial lying moral degenerate con man would actually be an asset Donald. Think often of Roy Cohn when youre sitting in your jail cell.
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,230 posts)wolfie001
(3,342 posts)onetexan
(13,713 posts)😎😁i agree👍🇺🇸
Alice Kramden
(2,358 posts)Judge Chutkan is truly supporting the rule of law