Judge gives Trump one week to appeal her ruling releasing evidence in special counsel's Jan. 6 probe

(CNN) The judge in the federal January 6, 2021, criminal case against Donald Trump will wait at least seven days before releasing exhibits containing evidence that special counsel Jack Smith is using to argue that the former president is not immune from prosecution.

Trump opposes the release of the heavily redacted exhibits related to the sprawling 165-page brief in which Smith that laid out the election subversion case.

“There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized—during early voting in the 2024 Presidential election—in connection with an improper Presidential immunity filing that has no basis in criminal procedure or judicial precedent,” Trump said in a court filing Thursday.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said later Thursday that she would okay prosecutors’ proposed redactions to the exhibits, but that she was pausing the ruling to release them at the request of Trump, who opposed any disclosure of the exhibits. Trump argued earlier Thursday that if the judge was inclined to release the exhibits, he should have time to “evaluate litigation options.”

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