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BumRushDaShow

(142,258 posts)
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 05:48 AM Oct 12

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..

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/judge-chutkan-rejects-push-reveal-more-jack-smiths-evidence-1967918

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Judge Chutkan Rejects Push to Reveal More of Jack Smith's Evidence (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 12 OP
They have all they need JustAnotherGen Oct 12 #1
There's a 1500 page appendix to Smith's report that will be unsealed next week Fiendish Thingy Oct 12 #2
I hope the lawyers fail and there is no stay. BlueKota Oct 12 #4
Judge Chutkan is going to do this her way for her reasons. republianmushroom Oct 12 #3
There will be enough revealed to make us all vomit. EndlessWire Oct 13 #5
The msm dropped the story after one day anyway. Boomerproud Oct 13 #6

JustAnotherGen

(33,544 posts)
1. They have all they need
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:19 AM
Oct 12

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)
2. There's a 1500 page appendix to Smith's report that will be unsealed next week
Sat Oct 12, 2024, 09:22 AM
Oct 12

Unless Trump’s lawyers can convince Chutkan to hold off, or if they get a stay from a higher court.

EndlessWire

(7,236 posts)
5. There will be enough revealed to make us all vomit.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 11:33 AM
Oct 13

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.

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