A federal judge slammed the Obama administration today while ordering it to release a secret foreign aid document.

Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, a Bill Clinton appointee, said, “The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the president should be permitted to convey orders throughout the executive branch without public oversight, to engage in what is in effect governance by ‘secret law.’”

Judge Andrew Napolitano put this all into perspective tonight on The Kelly File. “The presumption in the government is we can see everything the government does.”

Unless there’s a legitimate military or national security reason, the government has to prove why it’s a secret, he said.

Providing some background, Judge Napolitano explained, “Here, the president of the United States of America signed a document that had to do with international trade, distributed the document to employees of the State Department and after it was out there, decided it should be made classified.”

Judge Napolitano told Megyn Kelly, “It is the first time in the modern era that a federal judge has directly slapped down the president of the United States saying you can’t do this.”