re: Federal Judge Reveals BIDEN WH Ordered FBI Access to Mar-a-Lago Documents

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He actually can. And it is likely not even subject to judicial review. Though that part isn’t as clear. Per uncontested court precedent (Armstrong and the Clinton tapes case).

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From JW v NARA

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The PRA authorizes NARA to invoke the same enforcement mechanism embodied in the Federal Records Act, which begins with a request to the Attorney General to institute an action for the recovery of missing records. Compare 44 U.S.C. § 2112(c) with 44 U.S.C. § 3106. The statute does not mandate that NARA invoke this enforcement scheme but rather vests complete discretion with the agency to utilize that mechanism. 44 U.S.C. § 2112(c) (“When the Archivist considers it to be in the public interest, he may . . . .” (emphasis added). The Archivist has chosen to invoke the mechanism in the past when it deemed such action appropriate. See, e.g., United States v. McElvenny, No. 02-3027, 2003 WL 1741422 (S.D.N.Y. April 1, 2003) (seeking recovery of a map of Cuba annotated by President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis).

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He allowed them to come and take whatever they wanted. They had unfettered access.

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I assume you aren’t referring to the search of MAL pursuant to the search warrant. But this isn’t an accurate description of anything that came before that.