Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to grant them access to a Justice Department filing on classified details in the case that special counsel Jack Smith wants removed from discovery proceedings. "Given the security clearances that have been extended to President Trump and counsel, and the volume of classified discovery produced to date, there is no case-specific reason for ex parte proceedings," Trump’s lawyers wrote in the filing.
"The Court should be skeptical of boilerplate invocations of vague national security concerns and citations to factually distinguishable cases by the Special Counsel’s Office, particularly in light of the post-CIPA development of bodies of law under the Freedom of Information Act ('FOIA'), in habeas proceedings, and in motions to suppress Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ('FISA') evidence, where parties are granted greater access to filings that summarize sensitive and classified information,” the lawyers argued.
