The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Trump’s High-Judicial-Discovery Claims in the Doj-Inventory
Donald Trump got a boost in his attempt to challenge the FBI search of his home when US District Judge Cannon changed the plan the special master she was appointing to review the materials seized.
Cannon nixed several aspects of the plan proposed by senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who was put forward by Trump for the third-party review, that would have required the former President to make uncomfortable assertions in court, including whether he actually believes the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago, as he has suggested in public statements.
The bigger Justice Department investigation is looking at whether crimes were committed in the process of handling documents from the Trump White House.
With the intervention of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month, the department was allowed to resume the criminal probe’s use of the documents marked as classified, which may well be the heart of the investigation.
The prosecutors have said in court filings that understanding how the sensitive government documents ended up mixed with other materials is something they are closely reviewing.
Cannon turned down the part of the plan that would have required the former President’s legal team to back up their claims that the FBI planted evidence.
Cannon said that if there are additional matters that have to be reconsidered or the need to object to their contents, the parties should make those known to the Special Master.
In another boost for Trump, Cannon said Trump’s legal team does not have to provide certain details about his executive privilege claims in the special master review.
The federal judge decided not to require Trump to specify whether he thought disclosure within the executive branch was barred or not when asserting a document is covered by executive privilege.
The Justice Department has argued that Trump’s executive privilege claims are especially weak because the materials were seized by the executive branch for an executive branch purpose, i.e. a DOJ criminal investigation.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/trump-special-master-request-doj-inventory/index.html
The Timeline of the White House: Why Do We Need a Data Hosting Company? When Does the Department of Justice Call for a Proposal?
In explaining the “modest enlargement” of the timeline, Cannon pointed to the issues the parties had faced in securing a vendor to digitize the seized materials for the review.
Earlier this week, the department said in a court filing that Trump’s team had indicated the data hosting companies didn’t want to work with the former President. Trump’s team now says the issue is the size of the evidence collection.
Donald Trump sued in Florida state court to prevent the New York attorney general from getting records from the trust that owns the Trump Organization.
Trump is asking for an injunction to stop James from obtaining information and finding that he has not the authority to control the trustees or the assets of the trust.
The Trump’s are due in court in New York on Thursday, for the first time since the lawsuit against them was filed.
Donald Trump was sued for financial fraud. That fact hasn’t changed and neither will our resolve to ensure that no one is above the law.