September 19, 2022
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he shouldn't have to immediately hand over specific information on the declassification of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, arguing in a notice that the "time and place" for such disclosure hasn't yet come.
September 16, 2022
The special master in the fight over the documents seized at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate will have to step into the middle of a political maelstrom, but former clerks and others who know the New York federal judge tapped for the job say there's no one better suited to the task.
September 15, 2022
A Florida federal judge on Thursday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's request to allow further agency review of classified records seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, saying she is not yet ready to agree with the government that the documents are still classified and that Trump has no plausible claim of privilege to any of them.
September 12, 2022
Attorneys for former President Donald J. Trump urged a federal judge on Monday to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's call to allow further agency review of classified records recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and bar disclosure of the records to a court-appointed special master for review.
September 10, 2022
Former President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday proposed competing candidates to serve as the special master tasked with examining documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, as well as dueling proposals for the review's scope and procedures.
September 08, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday it will appeal a Florida federal judge's decision to appoint a special master to screen documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate for attorney-client and executive privilege and asked the judge to pause an injunction against prosecutors' review of only the classified materials seized at the estate.
September 07, 2022
A Florida federal judge's decision to appoint a special master to screen documents seized at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate for executive privilege shows a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the subject, experts told Law360.
September 05, 2022
A Florida federal judge said Monday she will appoint a special master to screen the documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate for attorney-client and executive privilege, and she paused prosecutors' review of the documents for criminal investigative purposes.
September 02, 2022
Former President Donald Trump's push for a special master to review files taken from his Mar-a-Lago estate is shining a light on a prosecution practice white collar criminal defense attorneys have long argued is unfair and puts their clients at considerable risk.
September 02, 2022
FBI agents seized 48 empty folders with "classified" banners from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, along with thousands of other presidential records, according to a detailed inventory of items made public Friday.