Trump lawyers told to redact witness information in classified documents case
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6KZ71)
Judge reverses earlier decision and rules that ex-president must swap in pseudonyms for people to prevent threats of harassment
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case on charges of retaining classified documents ordered the former president's lawyers to redact information about roughly two dozen witnesses from a public version of one of their court filings, reversing an earlier decision that had allowed no redactions.
The ruling means Trump must instead substitute pseudonyms - for instance, Trump employee 1 or FBI agent 1 - when referring to people inside Trump's orbit and others involved in the investigation that could be the target of threats of harassment.
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