U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that a redacted version of an appendix to Smith’s filing will be unsealed on Friday.

In her order, Chutkan addressed Trump’s claims that the release would amount to election interference, saying there is “undoubtedly a public interest in courts not inserting themselves into elections” but added that a “litigation's incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court's intentional interference.”

The judge wrote that if the court withheld information that the public 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.”

Chutkan added that because of these factors, the court will “continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making.”

The judge also dismissed the argument from Trump’s lawyers that the court was “limiting the public’s access to only one side” of the case saying the “Defendant is free to submit his legal arguments and factual proffers.”