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Justice Dept. and Trump lawyers dispute how the Mar-A-Lago special master should work

Late Friday, lawyers for former President Trump and the Department of Justice released different names for who they would want to review documents found in the court-authorized search of Trump's club.

WEKU

DOJ, Trump submit competing candidates for special master

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department and former President Donald Trump proposed dueling candidates late Friday for who they believe should serve as a court-appointed special master to review thousands of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last month.

Tribune News Service

Judge in Trump special master case was briefly a Miami journalist. She wrote about tomatoes, yoga

MIAMI — Before she became a federal judge — not just any judge, but the Donald Trump-appointed judge who slammed the brakes on the high-profile investigation into the former president’s stash of secret documents at Mar-a-Lago — Aileen Mercedes Cannon was for the blink of an eye a working journalist.

Miami Herald

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Trump team, Justice Dept. to make new Mar-a-Lago filing

The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team are to stake out positions on the role to be played by an independent arbiter tasked with reviewing documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home

The Independent UK

Rubio emerges as key Trump defender on FBI search

Republicans have largely rallied to former President Donald Trump’s defense after last month’s search-and-seizure operation by the FBI at the former president’s Palm Beach estate.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

DOJ testifies that Google spends billions on search engine supremacy

A Department of Justice attorney said in court that Google's default contracts keep it on top.

Input

Trump lawyers and justice department to file list of special master candidates

Judge’s special master ruling bars prosecutors from reviewing seized records as part of criminal investigation

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More classified documents may be missing in Trump probe, US prosecutors say

Justice Department calls for investigation into potential national security risk

The Independent UK

First Thing: Queen Elizabeth II’s death marks end of an era

Death brings end to Britain’s second Elizabethan era and heralds reign of King Charles III. Plus, rural Virginia pivots from coal to green jobs

The Guardian - UK

Justice Department plans to appeal ruling for a special master in Trump Mar-a-Lago search

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice intends to appeal a federal judge’s decision to grant former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home, a ruling that temporarily halts the use of the records for investigative purposes.

Los Angeles Times

‘Something horribly failed.’ How did so many of America’s secrets end up at Mar-a-Lago?

WASHINGTON — At least 300 documents containing classified information left the White House with former President Donald Trump, an unprecedented situation that has led to the FBI investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Melania feels violated when by the FBI search? We feel violated by her husband's behavior

After FBI agents reportedly searched her Mar-a-Lago bedroom for purloined government documents, former First Lady Melania Trump recently told friends she felt "violated," reports Radar Online.

Los Angeles Times

Noah Feldman: Do ‘Trump judges’ exist? We’re about to find out

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Start circling the wagons. That’s the message a federal district judge is sending to other Trump-appointed judges by allowing a special master to review the documents seized from a Mar-A-Lago safe. By suggesting that former president Donald Trump might be able to invoke executive privilege after leaving…

Tribune News Service

Outrage builds over new report Trump stashed top secret nuclear documents at Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald Trump was slammed Wednesday after a new report claimed he had super top secret documents describing a foreign country’s nuclear capacities stashed at his Florida resort home.

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Al Jazeera

Trump investigation: Where do things stand and what happens next?

An FBI raid, seized documents, and a court-ordered ‘special master’ review: Here’s what it all means.

Reason

Trump's Document Trove Reportedly Included Information About a Foreign Nation's Nuclear Capabilities

"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax," says the former president, who insists that nothing at Mar-a-Lago was actually classified.

Mic

New reporting about the Trump FBI raid suggests there really were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago

And Trump is not handling the allegations well.

The Guardian - US

Colbert on Trump special master ruling: ‘This decision is bonkers’

Late-night hosts return to discuss the federal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago resort

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Trump-appointed judge hands Trump an undeserved victory. No surprise there

A federal judge issued a ruling on Labor Day that is, unfortunately, no longer surprising even though it should be shocking to all but the most MAGA-blinded Americans. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, ruled that executive privilege might apply in the case of the government-owned documents that the…

Salon

"Special master": A dreadful idea

Our justice system is already deeply unfair. Insisting on a higher bar for Trump's prosecution only makes it worse

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The special master order for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents is perverse and potentially disastrous

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order requiring the appointment of a special master to sift through the property seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago has found few defenders. Its tendentious factual account and muddled legal reasoning are easy to denigrate.

The Guardian - US

The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law

Judge Aileen Cannon’s opinion screams out that she applies more lenient rules to Donald Trump

Evening Standard

FBI ‘found document on foreign nation’s nuclear secrets during raid of Donald Trump’s Florida home’

Agents recovered a document describing a foreign government’s nuclear defence capabilities during its search of Mar-a-Lago, the Washington Post reported

Al Jazeera

Seized Trump documents showed foreign nation’s nuclear capability

More than 11,000 government documents and photographs were seized when the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

The Independent UK

Bill Barr says DoJ should appeal ‘wrong’ special master ruling on Trump documents

Federal court ruled on Monday that outside arbiter must review seized Trump documents

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