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Lawyers for a conservative think tank will later fire 'the opening salvo' in its bid to force the U.S. government to release Prince Harry's visa application.
The Heritage Foundation wants to know how the Duke of Sussex got into the country after he confessed in his memoir Spare to taking cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms.
Samuel Dewey, the foundation's lead attorney, said there could be a lengthy legal battle to force the Department of Homeland Security to disclose the paperwork.
Prince Harry admitted to taking drugs in his memoir Spare, which was released at the start of the year
'The key issue before the court today is whether or not to accelerate this process,' he told DailyMail.com. 'We did not yet raise our arguments about the merits of the case.'
'We will litigate those at a later date. This is the opening salvo and we look forward to prevailing against the administration's frankly frivolous anti-transparency position.'
Sources close to the case have repeatedly accused U.S. government officials of deliberately obstructing freedom of information requests.
Tuesday's hearing will be heard by the Donald Trump-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols.
Nichols is notorious in Washington legal circles for tossing some of the charges in rulings last year against those involved in the January 6th storming of the Capitol in 2020.
The hearing, a federal court in D.C. comes after Prince Harry gave evidence to English judges his case against the publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mirror.
He is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for damages, claiming journalists were linked to unlawful methods of information gathering.
Prince Harry arrives at the High Court in London today as part of a separate court case
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have positioned themselves as public figures in the U.S. since stepping back from the British Royal Family in 2020
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were last seen in the UK together at the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II last September, months before 'Spare' was