A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a heavily redacted trove of evidence supporting the contention by federal prosecutors that former President Donald Trump illegally sought to overturn the 2020 election.

In ordering the release, the judge was rejecting objections by Trump’s legal team that making even a largely blanked-out version of the material public now would constitute interference in the presidential election.

The materials — a four-part appendix to a lengthy brief recently filed by special counsel Jack Smith — consisted of 1,889 pages. But most of it was redacted and can only be seen by the parties involved in the case.

The remainder appeared to consist almost entirely of previously released memos, social media postings, transcripts and other known materials.

Earlier this month, Smith had proposed releasing already public material like Trump’s social media posts from the post-election period, but blacking out nonpublic portions of sensitive files such as transcripts of grand jury witness testimony.