Judge to consider unsealing Trump grand jury filings

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

A federal judge is considering whether to unseal secret court documents detailing former President Donald Trump’s effort to prevent former aides from providing testimony to a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to weigh in on unsealing requests made by two media organizations: POLITICO on Oct. 18 and the New York Times on Oct. 21.

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Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, testified before a grand jury last Thursday just hours after a federal appeals court panel rejected a last-ditch appeal by Trump lawyers seeking to raise executive privilege concerns about the appearance.

After a rushed series of filings, three D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges — Karen Henderson, Robert Wilkins and Florence Pan — turned down the emergency stay request at about 7 p.m. on the evening before Short testified, according to a court docket POLITICO reviewed that reflects the closed-door legal battle.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/donald-trump-grand-jury-00063692

[James48]

2. The only thing I want to see unsealed is the indictments

Unseal those.

[brooklynite]

3. What indictments are you aware of?

[Orrex]

5. Whew! For a moment I feared that someone might get away with expressing an idle thought.

Thanks for always swooping in to tell people the correct way to think. Where would we be without you?

[ZonkerHarris]

4. just do it

[JudyM]

6. Locking

The judge’s eventual decision may be important breaking news, but mere consideration whether to unseal is not important news yet, in the view of the forum hosts, so should be posted in the General Discussion forum instead.