Associated Press
The Justice Department is set to respond Tuesday to former President Donald Trump’s legal team’s request for a special master to review the documents seized during an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago this month.
The filing is due ahead of a Thursday hearing in which U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
Trump’s lawyers last week asked for the appointment of a special master who’d be tasked with reviewing the records taken during the Aug. 8 search of Trump’s Florida property and setting aside documents protected by claims of legal privilege. Cannon on Saturday said it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint such a person but also gave the Justice Department an opportunity to respond.
On Monday, the department said it had already completed its review of potentially privileged documents and identified a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”
In a separate development, the Trump legal team has grown with the addition of another attorney. Chris Kise, Florida’s former solicitor general, has joined the team of lawyers representing Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Kise did not return messages seeking comment.
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One comment
PeterH
August 30, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Chris Kise cannot change the fact that Donald Trump removed classified material from the White House to hold as a trophy at Mar-a-Lago.
The Justice Department has a paper trail. I find it interesting that Kise left his prestigious law firm to work on Trump’s behalf. Everything Trump touches turns sour.
Justice arrives in many shapes and forms.
Consider this justice scenario for the Trump Crime Family: after committing extortion, blackmail, obstruction, witness tampering, sexual assault, insurrection and tax evasion; that Trump were to go to jail for not returning library materials on time.
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