By Gary Grumbach and Ryan J. Reilly A federal magistrate judge on Tuesday rescinded the Trump administration’s ability to examine data seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson last month, saying he would “conduct an independent judicial review” of the materials obtained by the Justice Department through a search warrant. U.S. Magistrate Judge William B. Porter wrote that it was the court’s “genuine hope” that the search was conducted, as the Trump administration contended, “to gather evidence of a crime in a single case, not to collect information about confidential sources from a reporter who has published articles critical of the administration.” Porter wrote that
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