{"id":1616596,"date":"2022-08-19T12:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616596"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:38:33","slug":"judicial-watch-victory-court-rejects-biden-doj-effort-to-keep-trump-warrant-affidavit-completely-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judicial-watch-victory-court-rejects-biden-doj-effort-to-keep-trump-warrant-affidavit-completely-sealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Watch Victory: Court Rejects Biden DOJ Effort to Keep Trump Warrant Affidavit Completely Sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fjudicial-watch-victory-court-rejects-biden-doj-effort-to-keep-trump-warrant-affidavit-completely-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=1616596&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1000-e1660146267196.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<h5>Judicial Watch \u2014 RELEASE<br \/>UPDATED 9:19 AM PT \u2013 Friday, August 19, 2022<\/h5>\n<p><strong>(Washington, DC)<\/strong> \u2013 Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart\u2019s decision granting Judicial Watch\u2019s request to unseal at least part of the affidavit and other materials used to justify the unprecedented raid on former President Trump\u2019s home:<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch achieved a key court victory today over the Biden Justice Department\u2019s desperate move to keep the Trump warrant affidavit complete sealed. The court outright rejected the Justice Department\u2019s brazen play to keep the whole document secret. The Biden administration\u2019s unprecedented and abusive raid on Trump\u2019s home has created a rule of law crisis that can only be alleviated with transparency and accountability. And, we\u2019re thrilled that Americans will get more of both with today\u2019s court decision, finding that at least some more information about this terrible raid should be released.<\/p>\n<p>James Moon of the Meland Budwick, P.A. law firm in Miami argued on behalf of Judicial Watch. After the hearing in West Palm Beach, FL, today, the court issued an order which stated:<\/p>\n<p>As I ruled from the bench at the conclusion of the hearing, I find that on the present record the Government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. It is ORDERED that by noon EST on Thursday, August 25, 2022, the Government shall file under seal its proposed redactions along with a legal memorandum setting forth the justification for the proposed redactions.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered the release of other documents concerning the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>On August 9, Judicial Watch filed its motion asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal as soon as possible the search warrant materials used by the FBI to raid President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida (U.S. v. Sealed Search Warrant (Case No. 9:22-mj-08332)).<\/p>\n<p>On August 11, the DOJ filed a motion offering to unseal certain warrant materials.<\/p>\n<p>On August 12, Judicial Watch Judicial Watch filed President Trump\u2019s public statement with the court, in which he made it clear that he would not oppose the release of documents related to the August 8, 2022, raid. Later that day, the DOJ made a partial release of the Trump raid warrant materials.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Albany Times Union and the New York Times joined Judicial Watch in filing for the unsealing of the warrant by filing an amicus letter and motion respectively. Other interests later joined in the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department was ordered by Magistrate Judge Reinhart to respond by August 15 to Judicial Watch\u2019s Motion to Unseal the warrant and supporting materials behind the FBI raid. In its filing, the Justice Department alleged that releasing the affidavit would \u201ccause significant and irreparable damage\u201d to its ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On August 17, Judicial Watch submitted its reply to the DOJ\u2019s effort to keep under seal the affidavit used to justify the controversial raid on the home of former President Trump. Judicial Watch cited former President Trump\u2019s support for the release of the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Sutherland Farrell<br \/>Dir. Public Affairs<br \/>Judicial Watch Inc.<br \/>425 Third St SW, Suite 800<br \/>Washington, DC 20024<br \/>Cell 703-405-8905<br \/>jfarrell@judicialwatch.org<br \/>@judicialwatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judicial Watch \u2014 RELEASEUPDATED 9:19 AM PT \u2013 Friday, August 19, 2022 (Washington, DC) \u2013 Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart\u2019s decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"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-1616596","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\/1616596","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616596\/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=1616596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}