On Thursday, a federal judge approved the release of the redacted evidence against him Donald Trump This month, it briefly backed the federal election lawsuit, but gave the former president seven days to try to block the disclosure.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw the case, said in her order that prosecutors’ proposed amendments to the brief’s addendum “are appropriate and that the Defendant’s express objections to further unsealing are without merit.”
Trump’s lawyers had argued The 165-page brief, which was sealed this month as early voting in the presidential election continues, is against “further disclosure” of any part of the annex accompanying special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
Prosecutors previously argued that the addendum, along with the proposed redactions, should be made public.
In opposition, Trump’s lawyers had asked the court to stay any decision on the release of the documents to give Trump a chance to “evaluate his judicial options.”
Trump’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night about whether his legal team planned to take further action to prevent disclosure.
Prosecutors from Smith’s office said in their filing that Trump “committed crimes“Staying in office after losing the election four years ago and claiming that his actions did not constitute official misconduct as Trump’s team claimed at the time.
The special prosecutor’s office declined to comment.
They previously rejected claims by Trump’s lawyers that the government was “motivated by improper political considerations.”
“The special prosecutor’s mandate is to uphold the law. He has no role or interest in partisan politics and has faithfully performed his prosecutorial duties in this case,” they wrote. October 1 application.
Trump and his attorneys have repeatedly tried to delay his impeachment trial until next month’s election.
The federal election case was dismissed after the Supreme Court decision rule of immunityit established that Trump had some protections from prosecution related to official acts. No trial date has been set.
Trump’s indictment in Georgia, which is also related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, will also not go to trial before November. The judge who heard that case thrown out Three of the original 41 counts were filed last month, including two against Trump.
Separately, Trump successfully delayed sentencing in the New York gag order. The judge who heard the case last month given hdoes please forward postpone his sentencing after election day. In the Hush money trial, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a payment to an adult movie star in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
The sentencing is scheduled for November 26 repeatedly delayed from original date July 11.