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"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

Salon

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.

Los Angeles Times

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

The Guardian - US

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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

Evening Standard

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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Independent UK

Florida judge faces criticism following order in Trump case

A little-known federal judge appointed to the bench two years ago by Donald Trump is in the spotlight this week over her decision to hand the former president a major procedural win

The Independent UK

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Who is Judge Aileen Cannon and why is her role in the Trump documents case so controversial?

Examining the judge who will play a key role in Donald Trump’s legal defence

The Independent UK

Florida’s ‘Mother Teresa’ charged in $196m Ponzi scheme

Prosecutors say scheme brought in money from more than 15,400 investors across the US

The Independent UK

Trump-appointed judge courts controversy with Mar-a-Lago order

When U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was up for Senate confirmation in 2020, she was pointedly asked whether she’d had discussions about loyalty to then-President Donald Trump before he nominated her to Florida’s federal bench.

Tribune News Service

Judge grants Donald Trump's special master bid in document probe

The US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into classified documents kept at former president Donald Trump's Florida home – a judge's ruling could delay the probe.

ABC News

Trump wins bid for ‘special master’ for Mar-a-Lago records

A federal judge granted Donald Trump’s request for a neutral third party to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and temporarily barred the government from using the trove to develop its criminal investigation into the former president.

Tribune News Service

What is a special master, the official who will now review documents seized from Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago?

Appointment is minor victory for Trump, but DoJ can appeal

The Independent UK

Trump wins bid for ‘special master’ for Mar-a-Lago records

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Tribune News Service

Sen. Marco Rubio calls Trump’s top secret document scandal a ‘storage issue’

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents at his Florida resort a “storage issue.”

Tribune News Service

Trump wins bid for ‘special master’ for Mar-a-Lago records

Al Jazeera

US judge pauses review of documents seized from Trump’s home

Court grants former president’s request to appoint a neutral ‘special master’ to review material for privileged content.

Salon

Trump's special master request granted

The decision was immediately decried by some legal experts. Here's what one had to say

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Federal judge grants Trump's special master request to review Mar-a-Lago materials

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago last month.

The Independent UK

Trump claims the US ‘is rapidly becoming a Third World Nation’

Former president goes on unhinged Truth Social rant amid FBI raid scrutiny

Salon

Kash Patel: Trump's "wizard" unveiled

In "The Plot Against the King," Trump sycophant paints his former boss as hapless victim of "Hillary Queenton"

Miami Herald

Florida man and ‘Mother Theresa’ accused of raising $196 million in a Ponzi scheme

MIAMI — Filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department accuse a Fort Lauderdale man of getting $6.5 million of the $42 million defrauded from investors via a Ponzi scheme run through a North Lauderdale woman’s company.

Axios

DOJ: Trump required to comply with subpoena even if he'd declassified documents

A May subpoena requested all documents "bearing classification markings," regardless of whether they'd been declassified.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump hints he’ll run for US presidency in 2024

The former president made the comments during a rally in Pennsylvania

The Independent UK

America's secrets: Trump's unprecedented disregard of norms

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records

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