Tennessee Star Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy announced on Wednesday he and Star News Digital Media Inc. (SNDM), which owns and operates The Star, will ask the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop its opposition to the release of the written documents left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale prior to her March 27, 2023 attack that claimed the lives of six.
Leahy announced the decision during the Wednesday broadcast of the Michael Patrick Leahy Show, when he explained The Star has “decided to turn our attention back to Freedom of Information Act, transparency requests that we’ve had going some time related to the Covenant killer manifesto,” in the wake of the 2024 elections.
“I’m going to break some news right now,” said Leahy before announcing, “I just spoke, literally just about half an hour ago, with our counsel at the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty. We have agreed that we will be asking the Department of Justice, publicly, to remove their objections to releasing all the Covenant Killer documents.”
He confirmed, “There will be a formal request, probably before January 20.”
