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A Texas professor’s request to release sealed Watergate documents may move forward. According to the Associated Press, a court document filed on Friday indicates that the Department of Justice won’t “oppose the release of at least some documents.”

The Blog of Legal Times reports that Luke Nichter, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, is researching to see if uncovering a prostitution ring was the real reason for the 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters inside the Watergate office complex. He wrote a judge in Washington to unseal hundreds of pages of documents involving the wiretap materials. The judge had ordered the Justice Department earlier this year to respond by May 5. The department requested a two-week extension.