"No sooner did Columbia University settle the Trump administration's discrimination case, than one of its affiliates has upped the ante in the lawsuit over Special Counsel Jack Smith's final, and still secret, report on the Mar-a-Lago case against the president. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia has filed a petition with the riders of the 11th Appeals Circuit seeking the release of Mr. Smith's report, government regulations be damned."
"We acknowledged it's not every day that a newspaper supports burying a controversial document absent some showing in respect of national security. Yet two private aides to Mr. Trump were being prosecuted, and Judge Aileen Cannon feared their rights could be compromised by the release of the report. The cases against them have since been dropped and the two individuals - Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira - pardoned by Mr. Trump early in his current term."
Opponents of the president have petitioned the 11th Circuit to force the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final, still-sealed report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia and American Oversight asked the court to order Judge Aileen Cannon to lift her decision protecting the report. Judge Cannon previously justified sealing the report because she feared disclosure could compromise the rights of two private aides who faced prosecution. The prosecutions of Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira were later dropped and both aides received presidential pardons. Concerns persist that unsealing could damage the aides and reveal evidence never litigated in court.
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