The Department of Justice is opposing a request by media companies to unseal the affidavit outlining witnesses and other evidence used to approve a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.

“There remain compelling reasons, including to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security, that support keeping the affidavit sealed,” wrote Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jay I. Bratt, chief of counterintelligence and export control at Main Justice, in a filing submitted late Monday afternoon.

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