“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,” she wrote in her ruling.
Much of the newly-released evidence is heavily redacted - but it does include then Vice-President Mike Pence’s formal announcement that he would not overturn the 2020 election results.
This new tranche of documents comes after a separate 165-page evidence brief was released earlier this month by special counsel Jack Smith. That contained a trove of new information about Trump’s alleged activities during the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021.
Read: Jack Smith’s redacted evidence in Trump’s Jan. 6 case (almost 2000 pages)
Reuters: More evidence released in Trump election subversion case