The federal choose overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on costs of illegally holding on to delicate nationwide safety paperwork denied on Monday the federal government’s request to maintain secret an inventory of witnesses with whom Mr. Trump has been barred from discussing his case.

The ruling by Judge Aileen M. Cannon, within the Southern District of Florida, signifies that some or all the listing of 84 witnesses might sooner or later turn out to be public, providing additional particulars concerning the form and scope of the case that the particular counsel Jack Smith has introduced in opposition to Mr. Trump.

The authorities’s request to maintain the names of the witnesses secret “does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view,” Judge Cannon wrote in her temporary order. “It does not explain why partial sealing, redaction or means other than sealing are unavailable or unsatisfactory, and it does not specify the duration of any proposed seal.”

One of the circumstances {that a} federal Justice of the Peace choose positioned on Mr. Trump when he walked free from his arraignment this month was a provision prohibiting him from discussing the details in his indictment with any witnesses within the case. The indictment accused Mr. Trump of willfully retaining 31 particular person nationwide safety paperwork and obstructing the federal government’s repeated efforts to reclaim them.

While the identities of the witnesses stay unknown, many of them are believed to be aides and advisers close to Mr. Trump — amongst them, a number of who work or labored with him at Mar-a-Lago, his personal membership and residence in Florida. As a part of the circumstances the Justice of the Peace choose imposed, Mr. Trump was additionally barred from discussing the case together with his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, who stays his private aide.

Last week, as Mr. Smith’s prosecutors gave the witness listing to Mr. Trump’s authorized workforce, they requested Judge Cannon if they may preserve the names below seal. In their request, the prosecutors famous that Mr. Trump’s attorneys had not taken a place on the request to seal the listing.

Then on Monday, a gaggle of news media firms together with The New York Times filed their very own movement asking Judge Cannon to make the listing public, saying that the case in opposition to Mr. Trump was “one of the most consequential criminal cases in the nation’s history.”

“The American public’s interest in this matter, and need to monitor its progress every step of the way, cannot be overstated,” the news organizations wrote.

In her ruling, Judge Cannon stated the petition by the news media was moot, on condition that she had denied the federal government’s request to seal. It remained unclear from the choose’s order if Mr. Smith’s workplace would in the end put up the witness listing — maybe redacted indirectly — on a public docket or if prosecutors would merely be unable to cease Mr. Trump’s attorneys from making the listing of names public ought to they select to take action.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mr. Smith, didn’t reply to messages searching for remark.

In a separate order issued on Monday, Judge Cannon requested Mr. Trump’s authorized workforce to reply by July 6 to Mr. Smith’s request to delay the start of the trial until Dec. 11.

Judge Cannon additionally scheduled a listening to for July 14 for the events to debate deal with the numerous quantity of extremely delicate materials concerned within the case below a legislation often called the Classified Information Procedures Act. That listening to will probably be performed largely, if not completely, below seal.