“On my initial careful review ... there are portions of it that can be unsealed,” Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said after a hearing where a top government lawyer contended the document's release could jeopardize an investigation that is still in its"early stages."
He said he would then review the document and either order its release if he agrees with the redaction or hold a closed-door hearing with the government if he disagrees. detailed and lengthy" document needed to be kept completely under wraps because it contains"substantial grand jury" information in a"unique" case with"national security overtones."
Charles Tobin, one of the lawyers for the media organizations arguing for the document to be unsealed, said a search warrant being executed at a former president's home is a matter of a tremendous public interest and the affidavit should be unsealed. He called it"one of the most significant law enforcement events in the nation’s history."James Moon, a lawyer for the conservative group Judicial Watch, said the government could black out portions of the document.
Reinhart scheduled the hearing Tuesday after the Department of Justice had informed him that while it didn't oppose unsealing some innocuous documents related to the warrant, it wasLawyers for the department said the release of the document, which lays out the evidence of possible crimes that were the basis for the search warrant request, could “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.
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