The US Department of Justice opposed unsealing an affidavit that detailed the argument investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause for a raid at Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate.

The former president’s Florida home was searched to find classified documents that the Justice Department believed Trump took with him after leaving office.

According to prosecutors, if the judge agrees to make the affidavit public, they would argue for it to be heavily redacted. 

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Several media organizations including CNN asked for the affidavit to be unsealed following the raid Monday.

In its filing, the Justice Department said that disclosing the affidavit details “at this juncture” would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”

“The redactions necessary to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest,” the Justice Department stated.

Following the raid, Trump and the Department of Justice agreed to unseal documents relating to the search. The documents listed three statutes that were used to justify the seizure of boxes and documents from the property.

Investigators are trying to find if Trump broke three federal laws relating to the handling of classified information, including the Espionage Act, which relates to the “retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material.”

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Some of the materials seized from the property were marked “top secret/SCI” – one of the highest levels of classification, according to the unsealed documents.

Trump wrote on TruthSocial, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents … I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”

In an earlier post, Trump said that his “attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully” prior to the search, and that government officials “could have had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, if we had it.”