The Justice Department’s successful push to release former President Joe Biden’s private memoir tapes is undercutting the Trump administration’s effort to keep former special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents report under seal, a First Amendment watchdog argued Tuesday.
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and American Oversight filed a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to overturn U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s permanent injunction barring the report’s release. The groups said neither the DOJ nor President Donald Trump’s legal team, which both seek to keep the report under wraps, has justified why the public’s right of access should be overridden.
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