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ABC News reports:
The Justice Department said in a new court filing Monday that it opposes an effort by multiple media organizations, including ABC News, to unseal the supporting affidavit behind the now-public search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
“There remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed,” the filing states.
In a footnote, department officials write that they “carefully considered” whether they could release the affidavit with redactions, but the redactions necessary to “mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest.”
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BREAKING: DOJ says in new court filing it opposes effort by multiple media organizations, including @ABC News, to unseal supporting affidavit behind the now-public search warrant for former Pres. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. https://t.co/MyJjRDFzsr
— ABC News (@ABC) August 15, 2022
DOJ is appropriately resisting disclosure of the Mar A Lago search affidavit because it will compromise their ongoing investigation. This is very standard and right. That said, what they said — especially about witnesses — will invariably drive Trump to be even more worried pic.twitter.com/cfrCWPbBhn
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) August 15, 2022
DOJ says it does not object to unsealing other things that would not jeopardise the integrity of the NatSec investigation subject to redactions, like cover sheets (Docket Entry 1), motion to seal (DE 2) and Court’s sealing order (DE 3) — and asks to unseal prpsd redactions (DE57)
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 15, 2022