Judge Reinhart Douses AG On Fire’s Cover

Kudos to Judge for formally rejecting DOJ’s plea to keep Mar-a-Lago affidavit sealed thanks to “intense public interest” in “unprecedented” raid on ex-president’s home. Will AG now resort to playing redaction card?

Judge Bruce Reinhart didn’t totally doubt the DOJ’s claim that an unredacted version of the Affidavit “could reveal agent identities or investigative sources” and “impose an undue burden on its resources” so as to be “disruptive and burdensome in future cases.” YET, perhaps most telling was his next choice of words: “Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these ADMINISTRATIVE concerns are sufficient to justify sealing.”

So, it was ADMINISTRATIVE worries that kept Attorney General Merrick Garland up for weeks at night before green lighting what may be the most over-reaching warrant request in US history which, btw, even Richard Nixon & Bill Clinton never had to deal with? And, when all he had to do was simply file a motion to produce in court & let a judge be his guide? As Berkeley Law Prof & ex-Justice attorney John Woo told Fox, Garland “set a fire with Trump raid” and is “clueless” on how to get out of the mess he unnecessarily created. With Reinhart’s dousing of Garland’s latest “pants on fire” ploy, is game over yet? Or, does he play his remaining “redaction” card to the hilt?

Davd Soul