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Donald Trump opposes the discharge of dozens of closely redacted displays associated to the sprawling 165-page temporary from particular counsel Jack Smith that laid out the election subversion case and asserted the previous president will not be immune from prosecution.
“There ought to be no additional disclosures at the moment of the so-called ‘proof’ that the Particular Counsel’s Workplace has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized—throughout early voting within the 2024 Presidential election—in reference to an improper Presidential immunity submitting that has no foundation in felony process or judicial precedent,” Trump mentioned in a courtroom submitting Thursday.
Earlier this month, the particular counsel revealed never-before-seen data from the federal investigation into the Trump election reversal schemes. Smith’s staff beforehand mentioned that it might present grand jury testimony, notes from FBI interviews and different supplies as displays for the choose to evaluate. Nonetheless, it’s doubtless that these delicate supplies will proceed to be shielded from public view.
With Trump making his stance identified on the redactions, Decide Tanya Chutkan may launch the redacted displays at any time, although she might wish to take a while to think about Trump’s arguments for holding off earlier than doing so.
Trump argued that even when Chutkan was inclined to launch the displays, she ought to maintain off so he may think about whether or not to attraction that ruling.
In comparison with Smith’s minimally redacted 165-page temporary, the redactions proposed by prosecutors to the displays are anticipated to maintain shield the extra delicate proof within the case, and it’s doubtless that the displays which are disclosed with redactions cowl proof that was already within the public sphere.
The particular counsel’s workplace beforehand indicated that, for the displays, they’ve “redacted private Delicate Supplies of their entirety,” and that they’ve additionally even redacted among the previously-public materials, such because the identities of individuals focused in Trump tweets, to guard potential trial witnesses from threats and harassment.
Chutkan is at the moment weighing how a lot of Smith’s reworked case in opposition to Trump survives below the Supreme Court docket’s immunity ruling handed down this summer season, which mentioned that presidents have at the least some immunity for official conduct.
Trump will file his response to Smith’s arguments on November 7.
