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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Kunzelman

Judge weighs government's request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., said during a hearing on Wednesday that he wants to see an inventory of the records before deciding whether the government can review them for possible release to the public.

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