Earlier today, Federal Judge Aileen Cannon granted the legal team for former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review the items which the FBI seized from Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago --- and she also halted the Justice Department’s use of any of those items for “investigative purposes”
Judge Cannon will name a special master, who will be tasked to review the items seized by the FBI on August 8th to determine if any are personal items or items subject to claims of either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege
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Here's what Judge Cannon ordered:
“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.... Furthermore, in natural conjunction with that appointment, and consistent with the value and sequence of special master procedures, the Court also temporarily enjoins the Government from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes pending completion of the special master’s review or further Court order.”
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The judge gave both sides until Sep. 9 to propose lists of candidates for the position of special master.
Media critics had claimed that the Trump legal team’s request for a special master was “too late,” since the DOJ already had the material for weeks. Judge Cannon clearly disagreed, although she did note that certain questions concerning the use and limits of "executive privilege," or the reach and enforcement of the Presidential Records Act would have to be filed and litigated in forums other than hers, most likely in the courts in/ for Washington, DC.
4 comments:
The Feds arent accustomed to oversight.
This filtering process the Feds describe as one agent reads documents that are attorney client privledged and dosent tell the other agent what it is sorta sounds like bullshit.
But its worked up till now. Maybe.
UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "FBI HELD UP TO SCRUTINY BY FEDERAL JUDGE FOR TAKING FAR TOO MUCH OF TRUMP'S STUFF IN RAID" EDITION
JUDGE REVEALS THAT THE FBI TOOK FAR MORE THAN THEY COULD OR SHOULD HAVE OUT OF MAR-A-LAGO ON AUGUST 8TH --- WHETHER WITHIN OR WITHOUT THE AUTHORITY OF ANY LAWFUL SEARCH WARRANT
In her order of September 5, 2022, Cannon revealed some of the types of documents that had been seized during the raid. It was revealed by Judge Aileen Cannon yesterday that former President Donald Trump’s medical records, and some of his accounting information and taxes had been seized by the FBI’s during their raid of his home at Mar-a-Lago.
"According to the Privilege Review Team's Report, the seized materials include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information," Cannon wrote.
Other sources have indicated that up to forty years of Trump's medical records were seized.
After Judge Cannon had issued her order, former President Trump said. "[I]t takes courage and ‘guts’ to fight a totally corrupt Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI.... They are being pushed to do the wrong things by many sinister and evil outside sources...."
More than two weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he personally approved the search of Trump's home on August 8th.
"totally corrupt"! "sinister and evil"! Send me money!
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