CNN —
A coalition of media organizations, including CNN, is asking the federal court in Washington, DC, to give more transparency into the legal fight over a search warrant special counsel Jack Smith obtained for materials from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
The news outlets are asking for the court to unseal the materials that prosecutors filed when applying in January for the warrant, which was sought as part of Smith’s 2020 election subversion investigation.
Twitter – which has since been rebranded as X – did not object to the warrant itself, according filings from appeals court proceedings in the dispute that were unsealed earlier this