The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested on Thursday that the Supreme Court block the release of grand jury documents associated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
In its application for a stay, the DOJ said that without the Supreme Court’s grant of a stay, “the government will have to disclose [the previously redacted grand jury documents, as well as the underlying grand jury transcripts and exhibits] on May 11, 2020, which would irrevocably lift their secrecy and possibly frustrate the government’s ability to seek further review.”
