{"id":1618885,"date":"2022-08-22T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618885"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:48:14","slug":"judge-who-greenlit-mar-a-lago-raid-gives-secrecy-minded-doj-order-on-release-of-key-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-who-greenlit-mar-a-lago-raid-gives-secrecy-minded-doj-order-on-release-of-key-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Who Greenlit Mar-A-Lago Raid Gives Secrecy-Minded DOJ Order On Release Of Key Document"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjudge-who-greenlit-mar-a-lago-raid-gives-secrecy-minded-doj-order-on-release-of-key-document%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=1618885&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a> judge who signed off on the raid of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">President Trump\u2019s<\/a> Mar-a-Lago mansion published a written order\u00a0Monday explaining his ground rules\u00a0for releasing at least portions of the affidavit that triggered the search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit lists the probable cause justifying the August 8 search. Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/3608441-trump-pushes-for-un-redacted-affidavits-release-despite-the-risks\/\">called<\/a> for it to be released, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) has balked, saying it could reveal sensitive information. \u00a0Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/3607025-judge-says-he-may-unseal-parts-of-mar-a-lago-affidavit\/\">indicated<\/a> he will unseal the affidavit, but signaled to the government what it may legitimately seek to keep from public view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumerous intervenors now move to unseal materials related to the search warrant,\u201d\u00a0Reinhart <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854\/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.80.0_2.pdf\">wrote<\/a> in the Monday order, pointing out that his court on August 12 ordered the unsealing of the \u201cwarrant package,\u201d which includes all relevant documents including the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-raid-warrant-receipts-make-no-mention-of-nuclear-weapons\">offered<\/a> redacted copies of several of the package documents to be unsealed, but not the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that remains, then, is to decide whether the Affidavit should be unsealed in whole or in part,\u201d Reinhart wrote. \u201cThe parties disagree whether a First Amendment right of public access applies to a sealed search warrant and related documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reinhart wrote that the First Amendment argument has limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere a sufficient reason exists, a court filing can be sealed from public view,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDespite the First Amendment right of access, a document can be sealed if there is a compelling governmental interest and the denial of access is \u2018narrowly tailored to serve that interest.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reinhart said he will consider\u00a0whether the DOJ has a \u201csufficiently important interest in secrecy that outweighs the public\u2019s right of access\u201d and whether there is a \u201cless onerous alternative\u201d to keeping all or parts of the affidavit under seal.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/doj-to-unseal-more-documents-related-to-trump-raid-refuses-to-unseal-key-document\">claims<\/a> unsealing the affidavit will jeopardize its ongoing criminal investigation, which Reinhart acknowledged in certain circumstances could \u201coverride the common law right of access.\u201d Reinhart added more hypothetical reasons for keeping the warrant sealed, including protecting the privacy of the agent who swore out the affidavit, protecting investigative sources and methods, and even safeguarding the physical layout of Mar-a-Lago on behalf of the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>But Reinhart also wrote that the affidavit\u00a0involves \u201cmatters of significant public concern,\u201d and said at least some portions must be made public. He directed the DOJ to submit the affidavit with the redactions it deems necessary and to defend its reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government shall file under seal a submission addressing possible redactions and providing any additional evidence or legal argument that the Government believes relevant to the pending Motions to Unseal,\u201d Reinhart ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida judge who signed off on the raid of former President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago mansion published a written order\u00a0Monday explaining his ground rules\u00a0for releasing at least portions of the affidavit that triggered the search warrant. The affidavit lists the probable cause justifying the August 8 search. Trump has called for it to be released, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1563626,"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-1618885","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\/1618885","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1563626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}