(CNN) The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation. The appeal means some sections of the nine-page memo will likely remain secret for the time being, while litigation continues. The Justice Department released some portions of the memo on Monday, though the freshly unredacted sections did not provide many new details on the decision by then-Attorney General William Barr that Trump should not be charged with any crimes. In the court filings Monday, arguing that most of the memo should remain out of public view, Garland's department defended some of the actions taken by the department under Barr. The unredacted portions that were revealed late Monday night -- which span two pages -- mostly contained bureaucratic explanations of why the memo was written, and did not include the section where Trump's conduct was analyzed through a prosecutorial decision-making process.

Source: CNN May 25, 2021 03:42 UTC