Judge Chutkan Rejects Push to Reveal More of Jack Smith's Evidence
Source: Newsweek
Published Oct 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM EDT | Updated Oct 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM EDT
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Friday a press coalition motion to unseal additional aspects of special counsel Jack Smith's immunity filing in the case involving former President Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump's federal election subversion case, partly unsealed Smith's lengthy filing aimed at convincing her that the former president's alleged offenses are private, rather than official acts of office, and can therefore remain in his indictment.
"Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one," Smith's 165-page filing read. "When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office."
The press coalition argued that the filing should be further unsealed with only redactions that are "essential to preserve higher values" and "narrowly tailored to serve that interest," citing the First Amendment..
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JustAnotherGen
(33,544 posts)To do what they did to SOS Clinton in 2016.
This denial is a weak excuse for the press to not do what they do to Democrats -
To 45.
Fiendish Thingy
(18,509 posts)Unless Trumps lawyers can convince Chutkan to hold off, or if they get a stay from a higher court.
BlueKota
(3,643 posts)republianmushroom
(17,629 posts)EndlessWire
(7,236 posts)It's delicious knowing that Trump appealed to the Appellates, and they ordered Chutkan to take care of business, and when she does, Donald gets slapped in the face with the Appendix. He really shouldn't have been allowed on the ballot anywhere, anyway.
Boomerproud
(8,407 posts)More proof of criminology and then...nothing.