Hearing on unsealing the Mierda-a-Lardo search warrant affidavit to put DOJ arguments on display [View all]
A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a hearing Thursday on whether to unseal the affidavit that federal investigators used to justify a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home — a major point of contention between the government and the former president, his supporters and the news media.
The Department of Justice is arguing against unsealing the document for fear it could compromise an “ongoing criminal investigation” involving national security, while Trump and his Republican allies are calling the unprecedented search a major instance of government overreach and demanding the justification be made public. Several media companies, meanwhile, have urged the document be disclosed because of the public's "clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred in these circumstances."
The hearing comes as investigators sort through the troves of documents — including some labeled top secret and highly classified — that they collected at the Florida resort last week, and prepare to take next steps in the case.
A group of news organizations, including NBC News, has filed court papers asking Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to make public the affidavit that convinced him to take the extraordinary step of signing the warrant allowing FBI agents to conduct the search.
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