CNN, along with The Washington Post, NBC News and Scripps, ask a court last week with unsealed documents connected to FBI raids former President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida – includes documents that are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice private bid to cancel an option of warranty documents.
Specifically, CNN and others are asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unsealing all court filings, including all affidavits that may be filed in support of a search warrant. review. These things explain why investigators believe there may be some reason the crime was committed and evidence of that crime has existed in recent days at the site where the search was found. sword.
The Request has been submitted after the Department of Justice filed its own request with federal court for the unsealing of certain subpoenas. In a statement announcing the request, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was seeking to issue a “search warrant and property receipt” from the FBI search.
In unsealed filings by CNN and other agencies with the court, they indicated “the historical importance of these events.”
“Prior to the events of this week, not since the Nixon Administration allowed the federal government to use its power to seize records from a former President in such a public manner,” the news agency said. in the file said.
The filing states that “the immense public interest in these records in particular outweighs any purported interest in keeping them secret.”
“Media interventionists certainly do not seek these records for any illegal purpose,” the media said. “Conversely, public access to these records will advance public understanding of the execution of this unprecedented, historic search warrant in the residence of a former President. “
