The judge presiding over former President Trump's classified documents case, allowed special counsel Jack Smith to redact government witness names.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Tuesday relented to special counsel Jack Smith in a long-running dispute over the names of government witnesses in the classified documents case against former President Trump, agreeing to shield their identities from the public eye. Cannon only partially granted prosecutors’ request in agreeing to keep the names of FBI agents, Secret Service agents and other potential witnesses in the case under seal.
In agreeing on Tuesday for the witness names to remain redacted, she wrote, 'Although the record is clear that the Special Counsel could have, and should have, raised its current arguments previously, the Court elects, upon a full review of those newly raised arguments, to reconsider its prior Order.' The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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