Read more about the case here: knightcolumbia.org/cases/united...

The First Amendment right of access guarantees a right of timely access. And timely access requires the timely adjudication of access requests. The district court’s failure to act on our access motion, we argue, is “manifestly unreasonable,” and has the same effect as denying the motion outright.

We also argued that the justification for keeping the report secret—protecting the fair trial rights of the two remaining defendants, two Trump associates—disappeared once the criminal case against them was dismissed.

In the motion @knightcolumbia.org filed in February, we argued that the public has a First Amendment and common law right of access to the report because it was submitted to and reviewed by the court in connection with the criminal case against President Trump. knightcolumbia.org/documents/qc....

The public has an extraordinary interest in the report, which concerns allegations of grave criminal conduct by the nation’s highest-ranking official. The report's release would shed light on the scope/integrity of the Special Counsel’s investigation and the character and actions of President Trump.

We're asking the 11th Circuit to compel Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on a motion @knightcolumbia.org filed over 6 months ago seeking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump’s mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/documents/uj...

Columbia University today, Paul Weiss yesterday. They are very different institutions with very different missions, but their capitulations to President Trump are both signs that our democracy is unraveling.

Be thankful you’re not living in his jurisdiction!

"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...

Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org asserts a First Amendment right of access to Special Counsel Jack Smith's report about Trump's mishandling of classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

Sadly, I fear he’s just getting started assaulting free speech. And in my home town!

We filed this important motion today seeking public release of Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

My recent op-ed in The Hill about Elon Musk and his attacks on free speech thehill.com/opinion/judi...