{"id":1607267,"date":"2022-08-15T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607267"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:04:00","slug":"biden-administration-urges-court-to-keep-trump-search-affidavit-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-urges-court-to-keep-trump-search-affidavit-sealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Urges Court to Keep Trump Search Affidavit Sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-urges-court-to-keep-trump-search-affidavit-sealed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration on Aug. 15 urged a federal court to keep the affidavit that led to the approval of a search warrant on former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s resort shielded from the public.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers said unsealing the affidavit would \u201cirreparably harm the government\u2019s ongoing criminal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when the public is already aware of the general nature of the investigation, revealing the specific contents of a search warrant affidavit could alter the investigation\u2019s trajectory, reveal ongoing and future investigative efforts, and undermine agents\u2019 ability to collect evidence or obtain truthful testimony,\u201d they wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22136274-doj-brief-on-motions-to-unseal\">a 13-page filing<\/a> to U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who is overseeing the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the implications for the investigation, the release of this type of investigative material could have \u2018devastating consequences\u2019 for the reputations and rights of individuals whose actions and statements are described,\u201d they added, citing a previous decision in a different case.<\/p>\n<p>A slew of parties, including Judicial Watch, media outlets, and the Florida Center for Governmental Accountability, have lodged motions after the Aug. 8 raid of Mar-a-Lago, arguing it is in the public interest to unseal the affidavit and other related documents.<\/p>\n<p>The government and Trump\u2019s lawyers agreed on some of the documents, and Reinhart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-unseals-mar-a-lago-raid-warrant-reveals-why-fbi-is-investigating-trump_4661031.html\">unsealed the search warrant<\/a> and several attachments on Aug. 12, revealing that the government believes Trump violated multiple laws.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Different Set of Considerations\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president\u2019s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter,\u201d Attorney General Merrick Garland said in prepared remarks three days after the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Those documents were made public with few redactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affidavit supporting the search warrant presents a very different set of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration on Aug. 15 urged a federal court to keep the affidavit that led to the approval of a search warrant on former President Donald Trump\u2019s resort shielded from the public. U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers said unsealing the affidavit would \u201cirreparably harm the government\u2019s ongoing criminal investigation.\u201d \u201cEven when the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}