United States Department of Justice & Privilege (law)
U.S. federal executive department in charge of law enforcement
Biden won't call for redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling
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Quick Glance: Battle for Biden's Memory: Defense Against Special Counsel
- Biden's allies defend him against accusations regarding his memory
- Biden rejects memory loss report, emphasizes remembrance of Beau's death
- Strategy: Highlight contrast with Trump's confusion and legal issues
- Biden reacts sensitively to special counsel's accusations, showing a fighting spirit
Peter Navarro reports to prison for contempt in Jan. 6 investigation: The former Trump adviser turned himself in to a Miami jail after the Supreme Court declined ...
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Quick Glance: Peter Navarro Reports to Prison for Defiance of Congress
- Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, making him the first senior Trump administration official to be imprisoned for a crime related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
- Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony from the House committee investigating the riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
- Prior to his incarceration at the federal prison in Miami, Navarro defiantly addressed reporters, labeling his conviction as the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.
- After casting his vote in Florida on Tuesday, Trump was questioned about Navarro.
Trump faces setbacks in other probes as NY case proceeds: WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faces the most urgent legal challenge of his life this ...
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Quick Glance: Donald Trump arrives in New York ahead of a court appearance.
- Former President Donald Trump's plane arrives at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
- Former US President George H.W. Bush's supporters said he will "forever" have their support.
- Following the completion of the booking, Trump will appear before a judge for an afternoon arraignment.
- The investigation has been criticized by Donald Trump.
Special counsel alleges crime to compel testimony from Trump lawyer: The Justice Department is looking to compel an attorney for former President Trump to ...
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First on CNN: Federal judge orders former top lawyers in Trump’s White House to testify in criminal grand jury probe
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Quick Glance: Appeals Court Abandons Special Master Review in Trump Documents Case
- The appeals court decision, however, did not address that question since it terminated Judge Cannon's review on jurisdictional grounds.
- Mr. Trump's lawyers claimed during the early days of the special master's investigation that he personally possessed a large number of papers that the government claimed were public property under the Presidential Records Act.
- The court of appeals stated that it was neither considering or endorsing that theory.
- The appeals court decided in favor of the government within a week.
Federal prosecutors seek to compel Pence to testify in special counsel probe: Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to compel former Vice President Mike Pence ...
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Trump probe: Court halts Mar-a-Lago special master review: A federal appeals court has halted an independent review of documents seized from former President ...
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Prosecutors Seek Trump Lawyer’s Testimony in Classified Documents Case: The Justice Department cited the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege in ...
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Justice Dept. Seeking to Question Pence in Jan. 6 Investigation: Prosecutors want to speak with the former vice president as a witness to former President Donald ...
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Quick Glance: The DOJ Wants to Know What Mike Pence Knows About the 6th of January
- Pence has not yet been subpoenaed, so his testimony would be voluntary at this stage.
- However, if he does appear, it might be a significant step forward for the DOJ, which has just appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to assess if Donald Trump should be indicted in the January 6 investigation or in the mishandling of secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.
- The former vice president was clearly present during several of the discussions in which Trump's inept staff of legal advisers sought strategies to keep Trump in power.
- If Pence agrees to speak, Trump will almost certainly try to block the hearing by asserting executive privilege.
Trump Asks Judge to Block Pence’s Testimony to Grand Jury: The former president’s lawyers cited executive privilege, a tactic they have used with other ex-Trump ...
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Judge bucks Trump, orders Pence aide to testify to Jan. 6 grand jury : Marc Short appeared before a federal grand jury in D.C. after federal courts overruled ...
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DOJ 'Seriously Considering' Charges Against Donald Trump: Legal Analyst: Barbara McQuade speaks to Newsweek after Trump's former VP Mike Pence was subpoenaed as ...
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DOJ will appeal judge's decision to grant Trump's special master request to review seized docs
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Quick Glance: Trump Support Sinks, Majority of Independents Oppose 2024 Run: Poll
- According to a new poll, 28 percent of the crucial demographic would vote for Trump again, compared to 41 percent who voted for him in 2020.
- According to exit polling from the 2016 election, 41 percent of independents voted for Trump over Biden, implying that the former president has lost their favor since leaving office.
- In example, 65 percent of Americans said they would oppose Trump running for President again if he was charged with a crime, while 61 percent of Republicans said they would support him even if he was prosecuted.
- "Newsweek reached out to Trump for comment."
‘Giant backfire’: Trump’s demand for special master is looking like a mistake: The former president’s request that a judge intervene in the criminal ...
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DOJ asks judge to force Trump White House lawyers to testify in Jan. 6 probe: The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to force the top two lawyers from ...
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge: The filing was in response to a request from Donald Trump's lawyers two weeks ...
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Files would "just disappear" if Trump was elected, according to Grisham.
- Former Trump White House press secretary Stephenie Grisham stated official paperwork would "just disappear" when Trump was around.
- Grisham, who worked for Trump from July 2019 to April 2020, claimed Trump often took official paperwork from the White House's working spaces to his private presidential house.
- According to her, "Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him."
- "They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear."
Justice Dept. Seeks to Force Trump White House Lawyers to Testify in Jan. 6 Inquiry
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Judge grants Trump's request for a 'special master' to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: A US judge has agreed to appoint a special master in the Trump investigation.
- WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge agreed on Monday to appoint a special master to evaluate evidence seized by the FBI during its unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's Florida residence, putting the Justice Department's ongoing criminal investigation on hold.
- An overhead picture of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., after Trump claimed that FBI investigators searched it.
- Trump's request, on the other hand, was one-of-a-kind.
- Many former Justice Department lawyers, both Democrats and Republicans, have slammed Trump's request for a special master.
Special master asks Trump team for ‘the beef’ behind privilege claims: The special master appointed to review the documents former President Trump stored at his ...
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Justice Department accuses Trump of ‘shell game’ with Mar-a-Lago documents: Prosecutors, Trump battle over claims many seized records were personal ...
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Quick Glance: Justice Department vs. Trump Lawyers Over Seized Documents
- A pair of unsealed filings dispute the former president's authority to claim White House materials as his personal property and use executive privilege.
- The Justice Department said in a recently unsealed brief that Mr. Trump would have required to declare them as personal property before leaving office.
- Another important question is whether Mr. Trump can use executive privilege to prevent the executive branch from investigating executive branch records for criminal purposes.
- The Justice Department argued that Mr. Trump could not invoke executive privilege in this case.
Trump appears to concede he illegally retained official documents in filing: A motion submitted by the ex-president’s lawyers argues some materials seized by the ...
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Quick Glance: Trump seeks a "special master" to evaluate information seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago.
- The Justice Department, for example, submitted a subpoena for papers with classified marks in May, only weeks before the search.
- In June, FBI and Justice Department investigators paid a visit to Mar-a-Lago and requested to view a storage room.
- Several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have petitioned the judge to release further documents related to the FBI's investigation of Mar-A-Lago earlier this month, when officials said they recovered 11 sets of classified materials, including top secret records, from the Florida estate.
- The affidavit supporting the search is particularly interesting since it apparently contains critical data concerning the Justice Department's investigation into whether Trump maintained and mishandled secret and sensitive government records.
Court blocks DOJ review of Scott Perry’s phone in Jan. 6 probe : Speaker McCarthy, Minority Leader Jeffries throw bipartisan support to joining secret legal ...
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Justice subpoenas of Trump counsel mark turning point : The Justice Department’s grand jury subpoenas to former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and others in ...
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Special master sets timeline for review in Trump docs case, says he must explain claims of privilege
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Quick Glance: Trump Is Burdened by the Power to Declassify Documents With His Mind
- The remark, on a broader level, is about how perception can affect everything.
- And, while Donald Trump has given us little reason to believe he is conversant with Shakespeare, his most recent interview has changed my mind.
- "Is there a procedure?"
- "How did you go about declassifying?" Hannity inquired.
- Days after the search, Trump issued a statement stating that he had a "standing order" to declassify any information brought to his home.
- However, from Trump's point of view, the notion that the president may declassify just by thinking about it alters everything.
DOJ asks appeals court to end outside review of Trump Mar-a-Lago documents: Feds believe Judge Cannon was wrong in creating special master and want all the ...
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Quick Glance: Trump-backed candidates have funneled at least $1.4 million into his businesses.
- He endorses, they pay: Donald Trump has devised a method of collecting campaign contributions from candidates wanting his endorsement.
- It's a pittance for Trump, who is estimated to be worth $3 billion.
- Only five candidates are responsible for half of the money Trump has received from his supporters.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump Press Secretary who is now running for governor of Arkansas, dropped $90,000.
Trump Kept More Than 700 Pages of Classified Documents, Letter From National Archives Says
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In Trump probe, US seeks to pierce attorney-client privilege: WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified ...
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Judge unseals new details of contacts among Rep. Perry, Trump-connected attorneys
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Donald Trump seeks to withhold two folders seized at Mar-a-Lago: The former US president is trying to exclude a specific set of seized documents from an inquiry ...
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Five things to watch as a special master looks at FBI’s seized Trump documents: Monday’s court ruling requiring an independent review of documents seized last ...
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Quick Glance: Barr: Trump accuses everybody who disagrees of lying
- Former US Attorney General Bill Barr recently dismissed Donald Trump's claim that he was a RINO, or Republican In Name Only, claiming it's a derogatory term used by the former president against anyone who opposes his claims of election fraud.
- ""A RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen," Barr scolded on Tuesday during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
- Barr has recently largely defended the Justice Department's probe into Trump's handling of confidential White House materials.
- "Barr is not the first person to be accused by the former president of being a RINO."
EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutors prepare for court battle to force former White House officials to testify about Trump's January 6 conversations
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Judge signals intent for special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents: The judge in the case gave the government until Tuesday to present its arguments in the ...
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Quick Glance: Takeaways from the Affidavit Used to Support Trump's Search
- More materials were provided over by Mr. Trump's advisors in June.
- However, the Justice Department was questioning witnesses in the case and concluded that Mr. Trump was in possession of further classified materials.
- The search yielded a cache of very sensitive documents.
- There were highly classified documents among the materials.
- The affidavit did not reveal the substance of any of the documents or the subject matter they addressed, and the Justice Department has not addressed the risk to national security if any of the records fell into the hands of competing nations.
The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis. We should act like it.
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Quick Glance: Judge Appoints Special Master in Surprising Victory for Trump's Legal Team
- "The court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," wrote U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in an order issued Monday.
- "It is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards," Trump's lawyers wrote in their plea.
- In response, the DOJ stated that a special master was not required because a "filter team" had already determined whether documents included privileged information.
- Trump's staff has until September 9 to submit a list of potential special masters.
Dispute with Justice Department: Trump calls for the next stage of escalation: In the dispute over documents seized from his estate, Donald Trump is now turning ...
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Trump special master ruling ‘troubling,’ legal experts say: A federal judge’s ruling granting former President Trump’s request for a special master has generated ...
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Judge sides with Trump over special master in Mar-a-Lago records case
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Quick Glance: Judge makes a decision Trump's lawyers are not required to provide clarification. Mar-a-Lago document assertions
- Cannon appointed Dearie to analyze around 11,000 papers seized Aug. 8 from Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club and house and determine whether any should be concealed from investigators due to attorney-client or executive privilege.
- Trump's legal team has warned that answering inquiries about the inventory list and whether the papers are secret could put them at a disadvantage in the event of a future criminal prosecution or judicial battle over the restoration of the confiscated materials to Trump.
- When Cannon decided to appoint a special master, she stated that the review of the seized sensitive materials will be included.
Justice Dept. Appeals Part of Special Master Review in Trump Case: The government, while calling a lower court’s decision “unprecedented,” did not seek to stop ...
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Quick Glance: Judge appoints Raymond Dearie as special master to analyze Mar-a-Lago materials while halting the DOJ probe against Donald Trump
- Raymond Dearie, a former senior federal judge in Brooklyn who previously served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, was named as the special master evaluating the records seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida residence by a federal judge late Thursday.
- The Justice Department, which had argued that a special master was unnecessary, agreed to accept Dearie because of his competence in national security cases and with attorney-client privilege issues.
- However, Cannon refused to allow the Justice Department to continue its study of approximately 100 classified documents while the special master conducts his investigation.
Judge keeps door open to special master in Trump documents inquiry: A federal judge signaled that she remained open to granting the former president's request to ...
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I know personally that parole is a privilege; I also know Maryland’s system is broken | GUEST COMMENTARY
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Exclusive: Trump’s secret court fight to stop grand jury from getting information from his inner circle
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In another legal blow to Trump, appeals court reverses special master in documents fight
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Takeaways from the ruling granting Trump's request for a special master in Mar-a-Lago probe
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Trump drops attorney-client claims over Mar-a-Lago documents: Donald Trump dropped claims of attorney-client privilege over Mar-a-Lago documents ...
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They took all my passports, Donald Trump rages after FBI raid: Donald Trump had been planning a visit to the UK to visit his golf properties later this summer ...
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Judge Cannon’s Ruling Is Untethered to the Law: By appointing a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents, Judge Aileen Cannon gave Trump the special ...
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Quick Glance: The Legal Implications of Trump's Decision to Appoint a Special Master to Review Documents
- Sorting is done by a special master.
- It defies logic to believe that a previous president may invoke executive privilege against the executive branch.
- Some courts have recognized a residual privilege in a past president that can be requested and subsequently asserted by the incumbent president if he agrees, but only in relation to third parties, such as Congress, when they require information.
- In reality, there is only some notional retention of residual privilege to — and the object of it, of course, is to safeguard and encourage open interactions between a president and his closest advisers while he is in office.
Trump's shifting explanations for keeping documents follow a familiar playbook: New York Times: Trump and his team haven't addressed why he kept classified ...
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Quick Glance: The Importance of the Mar-a-Lago Documents
- They will be concerned about whether any of the information in the documents is about them, whether Trump has shared any of it, and, perhaps most importantly, whether their intelligence efforts—which resulted in information they shared, trusting the US's ability to safeguard secrets—may have been compromised.
- During the Trump administration, our intelligence agencies responded to the president's erratic conduct by restricting the president's access to sensitive information, including information obtained from foreign sources.
- When Biden took office, he made certain that Trump would not have access to real-time intelligence by denying him of the daily briefings that had been a practice for previous presidents.
FBI Claims Secret Evidence Trumps Religious Discrimination Charges in Domestic Spying Case
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FBI Claims Secret Evidence Trumps Religious Discrimination Charges in Domestic Spying Case
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Trump calls on FBI to return "privileged" documents seized at Mar-a-Lago
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago raid: Armed Trump supporters protest at FBI headquarters in Phoenix
- On Saturday, armed supporters of former President Donald Trump demonstrated outside the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.
- According to one demonstrator, they were come to oppose the "unlawful search" of the Florida property.
- It came after the Justice Department and Trump both stated that the information should be made public.
- They did not enter FBI property.
Analysis: Latest subpoenas suggest DOJ probe could be aiming squarely at Trump : "This is probably bad ... for former President Trump."
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Judge Overrules Special Master’s Demands to Trump in Document Review: The dueling moves by Judge Aileen M. Cannon and a special master she appointed reflected a ...
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Trump's attorney ordered to testify in classified docs investigation: Evan Corcoran has also been ordered to turn over documents.
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Why finding a special master for the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents won't be simple
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Quick Glance: Why was Trump's request for a "special master" granted by a judge?
- Cannon also granted the special master in this case the unusual authority to search for papers covered by "executive privilege."
- Executive privilege is a contentious legal notion that states that US presidents and their staffs can deny some legal demands if they jeopardize national security or the executive branch's operations.
- She has given the Department of Justice and Trump's legal team until Friday to come up with a list of suitable special masters.
- Will there now be special masters in every [criminal] investigation?"
Judge rejects Trump's privilege claims over Pence testimony in Jan. 6 probe: A federal judge rejected Trump's assertion of executive privilege.
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Quick Glance: Pence's secret ruling forges new ground for the vice presidency
- This is because, contrary to popular belief, vice presidents are constitutionally required to serve as president of the Senate.
- And officers of Congress, such as lawmakers and their aides, have immunity based on a provision of the Constitution known as the "speech or debate" clause, which was intended to protect Congress from law enforcement inquiries related to their official duties.
- Vice presidents have long argued that they should have the same legal protections as Congress, but Boasberg's decision is the first time a court has granted the vice presidency so-called speech-or-debate immunity.
- However, immunity does not apply to purely "political" activities.
Trump Argues for Executive Privilege in Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago Inquiries: In both cases, former President Donald J. Trump is claiming a novel power to keep White ...
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Quick Glance: The DOJ Should Indict Trump Following Judge Cannon's 'Clearly Wrong' Decision: Tribe
- "DOJ should indict Trump and render [Judge Aileen Cannon's] delays and game playing moot," legal expert Laurence Tribe said on Thursday.
- "Judge Cannon is clearly wrong, but she's a sideshow now that the Court of Appeals has lifted her injunction with respect to the classified documents," Tribe said in reaction to Cannon's decision on Dearie's plan.
- "Now Cannon swoops back in & says (in substance), Trump doesn't have to put up & Judge Dearie should shut up."
- "Trump has denied all wrongdoing in regard to the documents."
Prosecution rests contempt case against Bannon after two witnesses: In Stephen K. Bannon's contempt trial, Kristin Amerling, the chief counsel for the Jan ...
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Quick Glance: Trump supporter Steve Bannon is requesting an acquittal in his contempt of Congress trial.
- Corcoran said in his opening statements that the charges against Bannon were politically motivated and that the former adviser was engaged in good-faith negotiations with the congressional committee when he was charged.
- In actuality, one of Bannon's prior lawyers, Robert Costello, contacted a House committee attorney to voice some of Bannon's worries about testifying, according to Corcoran.
- "They negotiated," Corcoran explained, adding that Bannon and his legal team thought " Corcoran said, adding that Bannon and his legal team believed "
- Corcoran asked Amerling during cross examination whether it was typical for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena.
As Trump’s New York arraignment begins, other probes continue: Former President Donald Trump will face growing legal challenges in New York ...
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Paid articlePaidQuick Glance: Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in a hush money scheme.
- It includes 34 counts of falsifying records related to checks Trump sent to his personal lawyer and problem solver to reimburse him for his role in compensating a porn actor who claimed she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years before.
- "The defendant, Donald J. Trump, falsified New York business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws," Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy said.
- Former President Donald Trump arrives in court in Manhattan for his arraignment.
- Following the announcement, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told reporters that it was a "sad day for the country."
National Archives letter to Trump's lawyers in May outlined urgency of Mar-a-Lago document inquiry
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Quick Glance: Five Key Points in Donald Trump's Lawsuit Against the DOJ Over the Mar-a-Lago Search
- Trump's lawyers have also requested the appointment of a special master to preserve the former president's rights.
- In very sensitive instances, such an appointment is sometimes made, and the special master is asked to evaluate seized files to ensure that investigators do not view protected information.
- Trump's lawyers said that this was insufficient.
- Rights under the Fourth AmendmentThe former president's lawyers believe that the search at Mar-a-Lago violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter’s review of Trump docs: The department has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s appointment of an independent ...
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Judge Rules Trump Lawyer Must Testify in Documents Inquiry: The ruling found that the government had met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception ...
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Quick Glance: Officials Prepare for MAGA Protests
- Preparations for potential mass protests have been made between city, state, and federal agencies.
- Ideas from far-right forums include creating a 'Patriot moat' around Mar-a-Lago.
- Police in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to questions about the threats.
- Meetings between senior staff members of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and security officers have reportedly taken place.
Trump's home search unearths material possibly covered by attorney-client privilege, prosecutors say
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Revelatory moments from the historic Mar-a-Lago special master hearing : A hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, was the first chance former President ...
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Quick Glance: Trump's aides quickly packed his belongings as he prepared to leave the White House.
- According to the Times, the former Trump officials interviewed indicated they had no recollection of seeing secret documents being placed in boxes.
- Former aides told Politico last month that the Oval Office and an adjacent private dining room were only packed up the weekend before Trump left the White House.
- Other intelligence officials told The New York Times that Trump lacked the same level of caution.
- According to John Bolton, a former Trump national security advisor, if they requested for the documents back, Trump would think they didn't trust him.
Media outlets ask court to unseal more records tied to FBI search of Trump's homes
reuters.com/world/us/media-outlets-ask-court-unseal-more-records-tied-fbi-search-trumps-homes-2022-08-31/
Garland Faces Tough Calls in Weighing Response to Trump Ruling: As the department decides whether to appeal the ruling on a special master ...
nytimes.com/2022/09/07/us/politics/garland-trump-special-master.html
Trump lawyers push to limit aides’ testimony in Jan. 6 inquiry: Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are engaged in struggle to limit the scope of a federal ...
nytimes.com/2022/09/23/us/trump-privilege-investigation.html
A rare legal consensus: The special master ruling is a mess: It's rare a judge gets so many things wrong.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/07/special-master-ruling-trump-classified-documents/
Trump requests Justice Department to return seized privileged documents: According to Trumps side, boxes labelled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33 and other sets of ...
wionews.com/world/trump-requests-justice-department-to-return-seized-privileged-documents-506882
Trump’s Latest Courtroom Blunder Is Wild—Even for Trump: Trump’s request to freeze the review of the documents seized by the FBI is “factually baseless and ...
vice.com/en/article/88q88a/trump-lawyers-special-master-fbi-search
Department of Justice Eviscerates Trump-Appointed Judge Aileen Cannon After Special Master Order
thedailybeast.com/department-of-justice-eviscerates-trump-appointed-judge-aileen-cannon-after-special-master-order
The move is likely to set up a battle over executive privilege, which Trump has leaned on in the past to stymie the Justice Department’s investigation.
Show more Trump lawyers to appeal DOJ subpoena of Pence, claiming executive privilege: reports
thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3854242-trump-lawyers-to-appeal-doj-subpoena-of-pence-claiming-executive-privilege-reports/
Quick Glance: The Memo: Pence faces new roadblocks in 2024
- FILE – Former Vice President Mike Pence addresses students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
- "If [Pence] is seen as being a willing witness to a process that millions of Americans think is phony, that puts him in an awkward place." Mackowiak added.
- Tobe Berkovitz, an emeritus professor of political communication at Boston University, said the classified documents issue "has almost become a yawn for the average voter — and for Pence it's almost irrelevant."
- Documents with classified tags Mr. Donald Trump Mr. Donald Trump Mr. Jack Smith Joseph Biden Pence, Mike Pence, Mike Mrs. Nikki Haley DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, Ron
Trump, DOJ propose four special master candidates to review documents seized at Mar-a-Lago
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/09/trump-doj-propose-4-special-master-candidates-review-records/8023861001/
Quick Glance: Meet Christina Bobb, a Trump lawyer who used to be an OAN TV host.
- According to a court filing, Christina Bobb, one of Trump's lawyers, signed a letter attesting that a "diligent search" had been undertaken and that all evidence in Mar-a-Lago at the time had been handed to the US government.
- " Pearson Sharp, who worked with Bobb at OAN, told Insider: "It doesn't surprise me at all that she's working for Trump."
- The subpoena was simply the beginning of Bobb's legal problems.
- Experts said the file might be used to establish a legal case that Bobb and Corcoran hampered the government's investigation, and they recommended both lawyers to hire their own lawyers.
The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/07/the-trump-special-master-ruling-violates-the-principle-that-no-one-is-above-the-law
Jack Smith Tightens the Screws on Donald Trump: The special counsel is ramping up classified documents probe by seeking further testimony from former president's ...
newsweek.com/trump-classified-documents-jack-smith-lawyer-1781323
Judge keeps door open to special master in Trump documents inquiry: A federal judge signaled that she remained open to granting the former president's request to ...
nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/politics/trump-special-master-hearing-explained.html
Quick Glance: Trump appears to be undermining his own assertion that the FBI planted documents at Mar-a-Lago.
- In his Truth Social post, Trump appeared to admit that the evidence in the Mar-a-Lago raid was not planted by the FBI.
- In his Wednesday post, Trump claimed that the FBI purposefully arranged highly sensitive documents on the floor of a Mar-a-Lago room to make him appear bad.
- "Trump's argument has gone from 'The FBI planted evidence against me!" to "They took the evidence out of my cartons — and spread it on my carpet!"
- Trump's and the Justice Department's attorneys are due to appear in federal court in Florida on Thursday at 1 p.m.
FBI Investigation Into Donald Trump Reaches 'Big Turning Point': Prosecutors are trying to force a Trump lawyer to give additional testimony to a grand jury ...
newsweek.com/trump-lawyer-classified-documents-fbi-1781474
Trump Effort to Block Mike Pence Testimony Will 'Fail,' Ex-U.S. Attorney: Barbara McQuade said that Trump's efforts would only serve to delay the Justice ...
newsweek.com/trump-effort-block-mike-pence-testimony-will-fail-ex-us-attorney-1785633
Trump, FBI Director Wray can be deposed in lawsuits by ex-officials Strzok and Page, judge rules
cnbc.com/2023/02/23/trump-wray-can-be-deposed-in-strzok-page-lawsuits-judge-says.html
U.S. seeks to pierce attorney-client privilege in Trump case: Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald ...
latimes.com/politics/story/2023-02-14/in-trump-probe-u-s-seeks-to-pierce-attorney-client-privilege
Judge Signals Intent to Appoint Special Master in Trump Search: The judge, an appointee of President Donald J. Trump, indicated she was prepared to grant Mr ...
nytimes.com/2022/08/27/us/politics/trump-special-master-judge-cannon.html
Quick Glance: Watergate prosecutor says DOJ will look into Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents
- "They're going to want to see who moved things in and out, when they did it in relation to requests that they made," Nick Ackerman predicted.
- I'm sure they'll fingerprint every one of those documents to see if anyone else had access to them and if so, who had access to them.
- "On Saturday, Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, told lawmakers that her office would be assessing the possible national security risks posed by the documents obtained.""The concealment listed in that affidavit, I mean, that's what really triggered this search warrant in the first place," Ackerman explained.
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