The affidavit that the FBI used to justify last week's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate will be heard on Thursday.
The Mar-a-Lago resort is owned by former President Donald Trump.
At 1 p.m., the hearing will be held at the federal district court in Florida. The judge decided to take the issue of unsealing the documents under advisement.
The DOJ opposed the motion because it argued that releasing the affidavit would cause significant and irreparable damage.
The affidavit gave detailed information about the government's investigation into Trump taking White House documents to Mar-A-Lago and why a search warrant was justified.
The DOJ argued that making the affidavit public would compromise the investigation by making witnesses hesitant to testify.
In a statement late Monday, Trump called for the release of the un-redacted affidavit.
The Justice Department argued that the public should not be allowed to see the affidavit because it implicates highly classified materials.
The FBI raided Mar-A-Lago last week in relation to an ongoing investigation over Trump's improper removal of White House documents. It recovered 20 boxes of materials, including classified and top secret materials, even after Trump's attorneys said in June that all classified materials had been returned. Republicans criticized the search and demanded more transparency, leading the DOJ to ask the court to unseal the search warrant for Mar-A-Lago and a list of the materials that were seized. The FBI told the court that it was happy to unseal the document since it had already been made public. The affidavit is more detailed than the search warrant and Trump allies want the FBI to justify the raid.
The search warrant in the FBI's Trump Mar-A-Lago raid was not made public.
The Justice Department is opposed to unsealing the search warrant.
The FBI is investigating whether Trump violated three statutes.
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