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WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out.

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The Justice Department requested the stay by the Court of Appeals in Washington while it appeals Howell’s ruling.

The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena seeking the full report as part of Democrats’ effort to build a case for removing Trump from office through impeachment.