News Outlets Ask Court To Unseal Search Warrant Docs

CNN reports:

CNN, joined by The Washington Post, NBC News and Scripps, asked a court on Thursday to unseal documents connected to the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence this week — including documents not covered by the Justice Department’s own bid to unseal a selection of the warrant materials.

Specifically, CNN and the other outlets are asking for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal the entire record filed with the court, including all probable cause affidavits filed in support of the search warrant.

In the unsealing filing by CNN and the other outlets with the court, they pointed to “the historic importance of these events.”

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“Tremendous public interest in these records in particular outweighs any purported interest in keeping them secret.” https://t.co/YzEtaydqId

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 11, 2022