The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington, D.C., denied a request by the former president to prevent Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith from releasing until after the Nov. 5 election a massive legal brief arguing why Trump can be criminally prosecuted.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former President Barack Obama appointee, wrote in a five-page ruling issued Thursday that “incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court’s intentional interference with them.”

“As a result, it is in fact Defendant’s requested relief that risks undermining that public interest,” Chutkan wrote. “If the court withheld information that the public otherwise 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.”

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