The federal prosecutors overseeing the labeled paperwork case in opposition to former President Donald J. Trump stated in courtroom papers on Friday that the proof they’re poised to present the protection as a part of the traditional means of discovery contained details about “ongoing investigations” that would “identify uncharged individuals.”

The courtroom papers — a regular request to put a protecting order on the invention materials — contained no clarification about what these different inquiries is perhaps or whether or not they have been associated to the indictment detailing expenses in opposition to Mr. Trump of illegally retaining dozens of national defense documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to get them again. The papers additionally didn’t determine who the uncharged individuals have been.

Still, the reference to persevering with investigations was the primary overt suggestion — nevertheless obscure — that different felony circumstances may emerge from the work that the particular counsel Jack Smith has achieved in bringing the Espionage Act and obstruction indictment in opposition to Mr. Trump in Miami final week.

Mr. Smith can also be overseeing the parallel investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse his election loss in 2020 and the following assault on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Some witnesses near Mr. Trump have been questioned by Mr. Smith’s staff in reference to the each the paperwork and election interference inquiries.

The authorities’s movement for a protecting order, which Mr. Trump’s attorneys didn’t oppose, stated that prosecutors have been prepared to start out turning over a trove of nonclassified proof that that they had collected throughout the paperwork investigation. That included details about investigative strategies, materials associated to potential witnesses and issues like grand jury transcripts, displays and recordings of witness interviews, the movement stated.

It additionally sought to limit disclosure of the proof to Mr. Trump’s authorized staff; to individuals who is perhaps interviewed as witnesses and their attorneys; and to any others who have been particularly approved by the courtroom.

At some level, Mr. Smith’s staff may have work out a course of for sharing with Mr. Trump’s attorneys the 31 extremely delicate paperwork on the heart of the prosecution, a few of which concern nuclear and navy capabilities. On Thursday, Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who’s presiding over the case, told the lawyers that they needed to begin the process of obtaining security clearances to evaluation the labeled paperwork.

On Friday, two of Mr. Trump’s attorneys — Todd Blanche and Christopher M. Kise — notified Judge Cannon that that they had reached out to the Justice Department to expedite the method of getting a clearance, which may take a couple of month.

Shortly after the federal government requested the protecting order, Judge Cannon requested the federal Justice of the Peace choose assigned to assist her with the case, Bruce E. Reinhart, to deal with the query of whether or not to impose it. It is frequent within the Southern District of Florida for Justice of the Peace judges, not district judges like Judge Cannon, to deal with pretrial motions.

Judge Reinhart isn’t any stranger to the case. Last summer season, he issued a warrant utilized by the F.B.I. to look Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s non-public membership and residence in Florida, suggesting that he believed there was possible trigger that investigators would discover proof of a criminal offense on the compound.

It may very well be a major improvement shifting ahead if Judge Reinhart handles the extra substantial legal motions that will be filed by Mr. Trump’s lawyers within the months to come back, provided that Judge Cannon was extensively criticized for making rulings favorable to Mr. Trump in an early stage of the investigation.