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Former President Donald Trump received a procedural win in the classified documents case styled United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos de Oliveira. Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to preserve the redaction of court filings of discovery documents, which contained information about government witnesses. In a surprising show of solidarity, news organizations, including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, the Miami Herald, and The Palm Beach Post filed a motion to intervene, urging the court to make sure the redactions were fully justified. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon weighed on the side of the First Amendment and ruled that unredacted filings should be released — in part.
The judge overseeing the federal government’s prosecution of Donald Trump over the former president’s allegedly wrongful retention of documents in his home at Florida’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida has ruled that unredacted versions of filings containing the names of government witnesses will be made public.
The Tuesday ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon says that special counsel Jack Smith failed to make his case to keep the documents redacted.
Trump's demand for additional discovery seems to have pushed Jack Smith's team over the edge. In a ranty 67-page filing, Smith's team "sets the record straight" arguing they are allowed to withhold evidence and that Trump's defense has all the discovery they are entitled to under… pic.twitter.com/gw9BVyFpKI
— Robert Gouveia Esq. (@RobGouveiaEsq) February 6, 2024
Cannon wrote in the Order Granting in Part Defendants’ Motion for Temporary Leave to File Redacted Motions:
Following an independent review of the Motion and the full record, the Court determines, with limited exceptions as detailed below, that the Special Counsel has not set forth a sufficient factual or legal basis warranting deviation from the strong presumption in favor of public access to the records at issue…
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