Unseal warrant for Mar-a-Lago search, AG Garland asks

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the federal warrant the FBI used to search the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

Announcing the action Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland cited the “substantial public interest in this matter.”

Garland also said that he personally approved the search warrant, which was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year.

Trump criticized the search anew, as did his allies who have demanded that the warrant be made public.