West Palm Beach, Florida | A federal judge on Thursday (Friday AEST) ordered the Justice Department to put forward proposed redactions as he committed to making public at least part of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida.

US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said that under the law, it was the government’s burden to show why a redacted version should not be released and prosecutors’ arguments on Thursday failed to persuade him. He gave them a week to submit a copy of the affidavit proposing the information it wants to keep secret after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week.

AP