The warrant that allowed the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s private residence in Mar-A-Lago is now one step closer to becoming public after a judge ordered the DOJ to “file a Response to the Motion to Unseal” the warrant.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who is believed to have signed the still-sealed FBI warrant approving the bureau’s Trump raid, said the Justice Department must now “file a Response to the Motion to Unseal” following efforts by Albany-based news outlet the Times Union and the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch requesting that DOJ make the warrant public.
According to The Gazette, Reinhart said the DOJ’s response may be filed “ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal,” meaning that the full response may be secret but that “the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record” too.
