Trump has a week to appeal order unsealing Jan. 6 evidence: Judge

Published October 10, 2024 6:25pm ET



The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 criminal case has given him a week to determine whether to appeal a decision she made Thursday to unseal a court filing from special counsel Jack Smith, which his lawyers say amounts to election interference.

On Thursday afternoon, a filing from Trump requested that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan keep an appendix from Smith’s Oct. 2 motion related to Trump’s immunity claims sealed from public view. However, Chutkan was unconvinced and shortly thereafter sided with Smith’s request to unseal the appendix, which may have contained more damaging information about Trump just before Election Day.

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