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DOJ Partially Discloses Memo on Russia Report, Appeals Judge s Order to Release the Rest A judge had ordered the Justice Department to release the March 2019 memo as part of a public records lawsuit from a Washington-based advocacy organization By Eric Tucker •
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The Biden administration said Monday that it would appeal a judge s order directing it to release a legal memo on whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice during the Russia investigation.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson earlier this month had ordered the Justice Department to release the March 2019 memo as part of a public records lawsuit from a Washington-based advocacy organization. She said the department, under Attorney General William Barr, had misstated the purpose of the document in arguing that it was entitled to withhold it from the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.