Judge Chutkan's response to tRump's lawyers. She ordered the release the appendices. 

"\[…\] Defendant claims that the 'asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference,'" Chutkan wrote. "There is undoubtedly a public interest in courts not inserting themselves into elections, or appearing to do so. But litigation's incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court's intentional interference with them.

"As a result, it is in fact Defendant's requested relief that risks undermining that public interest: If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute - or appear to be - election interference. The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests. Any argument about 'what needs to happen before or shouldn't happen before the election is not relevant here.'"

[https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.265.0\_2.pdf](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.265.0_2.pdf)