Judge Names Special Master to Review FBI Raid Documents, Rejects DOJ Criminal Probe Request
"Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday appointed a senior Brooklyn federal judge to serve as special master to independently review documents the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate.U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie will serve as an independent arbiter in the case, tasked with deciding whether any of the seized documents are privileged and should be off limits to federal investigators.
Cannon, who was nominated by Trump in 2020, also rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bid to revive its criminal investigation into classified documents seized during the unprecedented raid at Mar-a-Lago last month. The matter is expected to move quickly to an appeals court, and potentially the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republican President Ronald Reagan appointed Dearie to the federal bench in Brooklyn in 1986, where he was chief judge of that court from 2007 to 2011. Before that, he served as U.S. attorney there. He now serves as a semi-retired senior judge." [Epoch Times]
Read the pdf court filing
Judge Dearie has until November 30 to complete his review. This is a significant win for Donald Trump.
How do you think the Special Master is going to help Trump and what do you think they hope to gain from it? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe Special Master will go through material seized by the FBI during its search for any that might be beyond the scope of the warrant or protected by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
ReplyDeleteThe FBI seized a lot of personal records, photos, etc. which could be protected by executive privilege – on the argument that the documents came from his time as president – and cannot use those documents against him in its criminal investigation
He is independent from the politics of the case.
How can he get executive privilege when he's no longer the president that's question number one question number two is they've asked him several times to give us the stuff back and he refused question number three why is he leaving top secret or for yours eyes only laying in a closet even if he did declassify them how come the CIA never looked at this stuff or another agency other than him I think this time he got caught and he's trying to get out of it again all he had to do was
Delete@6:29...these questions have been answered before. Back later as I am in the middle of other work.
ReplyDeleteCiting a landmark 1977 Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of a law ordering Nixon to transfer the White House tapes and other records to a government agency, some legal experts argue that a former president has an implied authority to assert executive privilege.
ReplyDeleteIn the case known as Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, the Supreme Court rejected the government's argument that "only an incumbent president may assert such claims," and it held that Nixon, "as a former president, may also be heard to assert them."