Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is proposing less restrictive rules than those offered by federal prosecutors over what details can be publicly disclosed in the Jan. 6 criminal case against Trump.
In a court filing submitted Monday evening, Trump’s lawyers proposed two options for a potential protective order’s guidelines “to shield only genuinely sensitive materials from public view.”
“This more measured approach is consistent with other protective orders entered by this Court in cases concerning the events of January 6, 2021, and appropriately balances the government’s claimed desire to ‘protect [] highly sensitive categories of material’ and ‘expedite the flow of discovery,’ ” the filing read.
His attorneys also repeated Trump’s own claims that prosecutors for the Justice Department are politically motivated in their attempt to restrict the former president’s First Amendment protections.
“In a trial about First Amendment rights, the government seeks to restrict First Amendment rights,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the court filings. “Worse, it does so against its administration’s primary political opponent, during an election season in which the administration, prominent party members, and media allies have campaigned on the indictment and proliferated its false allegations.”
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