Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is proposing less restrictive rules than those offered by federal prosecutors over what details can be publicly disclosed in the Jan. 6 criminal case against Trump.
In a court filing submitted Monday evening, Trump’s lawyers proposed two options for a potential protective order’s guidelines “to shield only genuinely sensitive materials from public view.”
“This more measured approach is consistent with other protective orders entered by this Court in cases concerning the events of January 6, 2021, and appropriately balances the government’s claimed desire to ‘protect [] highly sensitive categories of material’ and ‘expedite the flow of discovery,’ ” the filing read.
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