The special master review is no more, and the case that led to his appointment has run its course. For Trump, this wasn’t a total loss. (via MaddowBlog)
The appeals court gave the Republican and his attorneys until Dec. 8 to appeal the ruling and/or request a stay before the order took effect. As NBC News, when it comes to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago scandal, we’re now “back to the beginning.”
Newly free, the DOJ is now returning to what it was doing in August: investigating Trump’s retention of government documents at Mar-a-Lago, and considering whether to charge him. After the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals put an end to the freeze that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida placed on the probe, the investigation is, in some ways, picking up where it left off.
As legal fights go, this one followed an unusually odd path. It was on Aug. 8 when the FBI executed a court-approved search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, retrieving sensitive materials Trump took and refused to give back. Two weeks later, as Justice Department officials reviewed what they’d found, the Republican filed a lawsuit, demanding a special master to intervene, and seeking a court order to stop the FBI from examining the documents already in its possession.
The litigation moved forward anyway, leading prosecutors to make a series of disclosures, each of whichA Trump-appointed district court judge, indifferent to her professional reputation, ultimately gave the former president
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