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A #Trump appointed federal judge’s lingering inaction over a special counsel’s report about Trump’s retention of #ClassifiedDocuments has ensured that it remains hidden, prompting a #FreeSpeech group to urge an appeals court to intervene.

Separately on Monday, a judge made public >200 pages of files concerning closed-door fights in court over attorney-client privilege during the investigations into the documents case & Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-documents-case-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Fight Over Hidden Report on Trump Documents Case Goes to Appeals Court

Meanwhile, previously secret passages in court filings over grand jury fights in two cases against the president have been revealed.

The New York Times
Sep 30, 2025 at 5:23pmWeb
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Together, the developments showed how details of the 2 investigations that led to #indictments of #Trump while he was out of office have remained hidden from public view.

The request by the #FreeSpeech group, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, is known as a #mandamus petition, meaning it is pressing a higher court to instruct a lower court to act.

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The request’s success is not assured because the standard for an appeals court to grant such an order is hard to meet. Essentially, it must find that the right to the relief sought is clear & indisputable & that there is no other way to get it.

But the request spotlights how the #Trump appointed judge who oversaw that case, #AileenCannon of the Federal District Court for Southern Florida, has sat on a request aimed at trying to make public a report by special counsel, Jack Smith.

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Separately, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia, James #Boasberg, made public on Monday material concerning fights over attorney-client privilege during the two grand jury investigations into #Trump

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/08f02277f737dafb/89c3d604-full.pdf

The #DOJ had curated & partly redacted that material, which includes motions, argument transcripts & rulings after Judge Boasberg, in response to a request by The NYT, ordered that they be unsealed.

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