WASHINGTON — A Trump-appointed federal judge’s lingering inaction over a special counsel’s report about President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents has ensured that it remains hidden, prompting a free-speech group to urge an appeals court to intervene.

Separately on Monday, a judge made public more than 200 pages of files concerning closed-door fights in court over attorney-client privilege during the investigations into the documents case and into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Together, the developments showed how details of the two investigations that led to indictments of Trump while he was out of office have remained hidden from public view.

The request by the free-speech group, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, is known as

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