ATLANTA, September 30, 2025 — The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University today filed a petition asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to compel a lower court to rule on a motion that the Institute filed more than six months ago, seeking the release of a Special Counsel report on President Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office in 2021.

“The court’s months-long delay in ruling on our motion for the release of the Special Counsel’s report has the same effect as denying the motion outright,” said Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute. “We hope the appeals court will quickly order the lower court to act on the motion, and that this extraordinarily significant report will

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