A Second Circuit panel on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit involving records of the federal investigation into potential campaign finance violations by people connected to the campaign of former President Donald Trump, including his former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

The nonprofit entity American Oversight argued that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York improperly withheld records reflecting the content of interviews conducted during the course of the investigation, while the government argued that such records were protected from FOIA under the attorney work product doctrine.

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