The judge partially sided with Trump’s lawyers, who challenged a broader proposed ban on the which evidence in the case could be disclosed.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case hammered out the details of a protective order at the center of an early dispute between the former president’s attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in a Friday morning hearing in Washington, D.C., sided with Trump’s lawyers, who challenged the government’s request for a broader ban on the disclosure of evidence and other materials it had gathered in the case.
But she gave the Department of Justice the opportunity to deem which materials are „sensitive“ enough to be covered by the protective order.
The judge also brushed aside a defense attorney’s concerns that the protective order could hamper Trump’s political speech as he seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
„The existence of a political campaign is not going to have any bearing on my decision,“ Chutkan said, NBC News reported.
