A federal court in Florida gave the former president’s attorneys until Friday to sharpen their requests for oversight of the Justice Department’s classified-records probe.
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s effort to limit the Justice Department’s review of the records seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate wants more details from Trump’s legal team about what, precisely, he’s asking her to do.
In a brief order on Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon signaled some confusion about the motion Trump’s attorneys filed on Monday asking for an outsider to sift through materials the FBI seized from Trump’s home and resort in Palm Beach, Fla., earlier this month pursuant to a search warrant.
Cannon, a Trump appointee who sits in Fort Pierce, Fla., asked Trump’s attorneys to clarify five aspects of their legal effort — filed in what Trump described as a “major” Fourth Amendment action but was primarily a request to appoint a so-called special master to screen records for privileged materials.
Cannon didn’t explicitly criticize the 27-page motion Trump’s lawyers filed on Monday, but her requests for clarification seemed to dovetail with criticism from some legal observers who called the submission convoluted, confusing and loaded with heaping servings of political rhetoric unrelated to the legal questions at issue. She wants answers to her queries by Friday, but did not set a hearing or further proceedings on the former president’s request.
Among the issues the judge asked Trump’s attorneys to clarify were such basic points as “the precise relief sought,” why the court has jurisdiction over the dispute, what legal standards apply and whether the former president is seeking an immediate injunction against the government while the legal dispute plays out.
……..
- Discussion
-
The judge presiding over Trump's effort to limit the DOJ’s review of records seized from Mar-a-Lago wants more details from his lawyers about what, precisely, he’s asking her to do https://t.co/KxJz4mxRmB
— POLITICO (@politico) August 23, 2022
NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon's first substantive step in Trump's Mar-a-Lago lawsuit is to ask for multiple clarifictions and explanations about what he's seeking — and on what legal basis he thinks she can act.
w/ @joshgersteinhttps://t.co/gqEbPopWQX
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 23, 2022
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.