The filing is the first entered by Trump's lawyers or the government since Cannon restricted access to materials with classified markings that were seized from Mar-a-Lago in August.
After Patel left office, Trump named him as a representative to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was raided in August.
The former president hasn't issued a public comment about it. It's unclear if Trump or former First Lady Melania Trump were at his Mar-a-Lago residence at the time.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a new motion that again seeks a stay in a judge's order appointing a special master to review documents that were seized during last month's FBI raid targeting former President Donald Trump's
In a heavily redacted section (pdf) of the affidavit, Department of Justice prosecutors asserted that "there is probable cause to believe that documents containing classified ND and presidential records remain at the premises," referring to Mar-a-Lago
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal with a federal court to halt the use of a special master to review documents that were taken by FBI agents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in August.
A federal appeals court on Thursday has put a stop to a special master's external review of the thousands of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
The ruling comes after a panel of the U.S.
Documents seized during the Aug. 8 raid by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in a photo released on Aug. 30, 2022.
They want to know exactly what persuaded a federal judge to issue the search warrant, given that the affidavit of the Mar-a-Lago raid has yet to be made public.
Former President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump alleged the White House directed the FBI raid on his father’s Mar-a-Lago property, a move he criticized as “Third-World antics.”
The government wants the court to prevent Trump lawyers and the special master from seeing records marked classified that were taken from Mar-a-Lago and to enable the DOJ to use the documents in its criminal investigation into Trump.
Last week, former president Donald Trump’s lawyers sent a letter (pdf) to House Intel chairman, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio). The letter is remarkable in many ways—yet the media has completely ignored it.
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The fresh controversy stoked by ongoing revelations about the FBI’s raid of the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump, including the release on Sept. 2 of a detailed inventory of documents and items retrieved in the raid, is
FBI agents seized more than 11,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's estate in Palm Beach, during an Aug. 8 raid that was approved by a U.S. magistrate judge.
The White House says it didn't know about the Mar-a-Lago raid beforehand, but new evidence obtained by America First Legal Foundation suggests otherwise. A senior adviser at the foundation weighs in.
FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago in August. In an affidavit attesting to the need for a search warrant, an FBI agent said the referral triggered a criminal investigation.
The affidavit was released to the public after Judicial Watch sued.
Former President Donald Trump said on Oct. 5 that the August raid conducted by the FBI had backfired by generating “about $5 billion worth of free publicity” for his Mar-a-Lago residence.
