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The Associated Press reports:
The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
Garland cited the “substantial public interest in this matter” in announcing the request at a hastily scheduled Justice Department news conference.
“Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy,” he added. “Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.”
Garland: I have made clear the DOJ will speak through its court filings and it’s work. Just now the DOJ has filed a motion to unseal a search warrant and a property receipt… pic.twitter.com/BOuVP1MgdS
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 11, 2022
Key point in AG Garland’s statement: DOJ was willing to do this quietly, *without* making a public spectacle of the search.
It was *President Trump’s* decision to make it public that turned this all into a spectacle (and is leading DOJ to move to unseal part of the application).
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 11, 2022
MORE: The motion to unseal was signed by U.S. Attorney Juan Gonzalez and Jay Bratt, chief of DOJ’s counterintelligence section. DOJ is also moving to unseal a “redacted Property Receipt listing items seized pursuant to the search.”
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 11, 2022
Breaking: The Department of Justice is moving to unseal the search warrant and the itemized receipt of what was taken Fromm former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week, Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said.https://t.co/YAlxhzMWqb
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 11, 2022