By Lauren Burke

“This is delicate stuff,” Judge Richard Leon said during a hearing on June 4 on the question of whether classified documents related to Dr. Martin Luther King will be made public. “We’re going to go slowly. Little steps,” Judge Leon added. Judge Leon also said the process of potentially making the King records public would be a “long journey” that would likely involve consulting the King family. The Judge also said he would request that the National Archives compile an inventory of the King’s records that he would later review. Judge Leon is a George W. Bush appointee. Lawyers for Trump’s Department of Justice are asking Judge Leon to end a “sealing order” on records related to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so that they would be released two years earlier than the sealing or

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