Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday urged a Washington, D.C., federal judge to restrict only “genuinely sensitive materials” in the former U.S. president’s 2020 election case from being released to the public ahead of trial.
“In a trial about First Amendment rights, the government seeks to restrict First Amendment rights,” Trump’s lawyers said in court papers filed on Monday, referring to the right of free speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Prosecutors on Friday had asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan for a protective order limiting how evidence from the trial may be handled. That filing pointed to a post from Trump on his
