Supreme Court Accepts Trump Appeal, Keeps Mueller Materials Sealed

  • Democrats unlikely to see documents before November election
  • Lower court ordered DOJ to turn over redacted parts of report
Robert Mueller attends a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington in July 2019.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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The U.S. Supreme Court all but guaranteed House Democrats won’t get pre-election access to confidential materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, agreeing to hear a Trump administration appeal likely to extend a legal fight into next year.

The justices said they will review a lower court order that would require the Justice Department to turn over redacted parts of Mueller’s 448-page report, along with underlying grand jury transcripts and exhibits. The Supreme Court will consider the case in the nine-month term that starts in October.