Judge Tanya Chutkan has unsealed almost 2,000 pages of evidence from the DC January 6th case against Donald Trump.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that the evidence, which includes witness testimony, should be kept sealed. In a two-page filing, they claimed special counsel Jack Smith was attempting to interfere in the election by revealing the information.
The majority of the pages remain under seal and cannot be viewed by the public. Much of the material has already been released, including transcripts by the House Select Committee on Jan 6th.
In the order to release the documents, Chutkan cited Trump’s claim that the “asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference.”
According to Chutkan, while there is a public interest for courts to avoid involving themselves in elections, Trump’s request itself “risks undermining the 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,” she argued.
A spokesman for the Trump campaign responded to the unsealing.
“Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” Steven Cheung told Fox News.
“With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race and Crazed Liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out.”
Cheung added: “As mandated by the Supreme Court’s historic decision on Presidential Immunity and other vital jurisprudence, this entire case is a sham and a partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt that should be dismissed entirely — as should ALL of the remaining Democrat hoaxes,” Steven Cheung.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all the charges levelled against him by Jack Smith, including the revised charges that were brought after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, which found that a president is immune from prosecution for official acts. The new indictment kept the same criminal charges but reframed them.
Smith alleges that “with private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”
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