Prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team on Tuesday cited the “press of other work” in asking a judge to give them until April 1 to respond to the court about a request from The Washington Post to unseal records in Paul Manafort’s criminal case. The Post has objected to the abundance of sealed and redacted records in Manafort’s Washington case and petitioned the judge in his case, Amy Berman Jackson, to open them to public view. Barr has vowed to be as open as possible while also noting that department policies generally do not support his telling all. Prosecutors in their filing said attorneys for The Post did not oppose the request for an extension beyond the original March 21 deadline. The Post’s attorney, Laura R. Handman of the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm, said the government’s filing spoke for itself.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2019 23:03 UTC