Requests filed to unseal search warrant used to raid Trump estate

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The Albany Times-Union uses the term "raid." I'm quoting them. I'm not into altering quotes. I'm sure that will come to someone's attention:

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Requests filed to unseal search warrant used to raid Trump estate

A U.S. magistrate ordered the Justice Department to respond by Monday to motions filed by the Times Union and Judicial Watch seeking unsealing of warrants used to raid Mar-A-Lago

Brendan J. Lyons
Aug. 10, 2022 | Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 8:35 p.m.

ALBANY — A U.S. magistrate judge in South Florida on Wednesday ordered the Department of Justice to reply within five days to motions filed by Judicial Watch and the Times Union that seek to unseal a search warrant that was used by the FBI to raid former President Donald J. Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach earlier this week.

Judicial Watch is a conservative legal group that has waged multiple court battles seeking records related to probes involving the former president.

The Times Union had filed multiple letter motions this week with U.S. magistrates in Miami and West Palm Beach requesting the unsealing of the search warrant materials. It's unclear whether the Department of Justice will oppose the motions. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart, who signed the search warrant, on Wednesday issued two orders directing the Justice Department to reply to the motions filed by Judicial Watch and the Times Union.

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[msfiddlestix]

1. No Worries... just informing us of sleaze bag rags that call themselves "conservatives"

Actually, I'm interested in unsealing the warrant. kind of surprised it hasn't been, but oth, I have to expect there were stacks and stacks of boxes of all manner of documents intended for grift to sort through. But crucisally, there may be certain items that have to be determined they actually collected and don't want to tip off what those items were in advance of unsealing.

[Bayard]

2. It's simple really

"Give us everything you stole from the White House. Including the silverware."

[Saboburns]

3. This is all complete malarky. Horseshit. Not based in reality.

Law Enforcement do not publicly release search warrants, sealed or unsealed. That's not how any of this works. The target of the search gets a copy of the warrant, to do with whatever they will.

This is just a sad attempt to make it look like the FBI is nefariously hiding something. To rally the rubes. This is on the same level as the fake elector scheme. Not real. Cartoonish.

The only way a search warrant makes it into public sphere is if the target publishes it. Donald Trump could have "unsealed" this warrant Monday. There's a reason he hasn't.