Former President Donald Trump received a procedural win in the classified documents case styled United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos de Oliveira. Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to preserve the redaction of court filings of discovery documents, which contained information about government witnesses. In a surprising show of solidarity, news organizations, including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, the Miami Herald, and The Palm Beach Post filed a motion to intervene, urging the court to make sure the redactions were fully justified. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon weighed on the side of the First Amendment and ruled that unredacted filings should be released — in part.
The judge overseeing the federal government’s prosecution of Donald Trump over the former president’s allegedly wrongful…
