According to the NY Post, a federal judge in Florida formally rejected the Justice Department’s plea Monday to keep an affidavit underpinning the Aug. 8 raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate completely sealed.

In his 13-page ruling, US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart found that the government had not justified “keeping the entire Affidavit under seal” due to “the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence.”

Following a hearing last week, Reinhart — who signed off on the initial search warrant of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month — gave the government until noon Thursday to submit proposed redactions to the affidavit.

Last week news outlets including all three major TV networks, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CNN sought to make the affidavit public.

The Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official, Jay Bratt, had argued that releasing the affidavit in full would “provide a roadmap to the investigation” and allow “amateur sleuths on the internet” to identify key witnesses.

“This is a volatile situation with respect to this search across the political spectrum — but on one side in particular,” Bratt told the judge. “The government is very concerned about the safety of the witnesses in these cases and the impact of all the attention on these witnesses on other witnesses.”