The Justice Department is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to challenge former President Donald Trump’s requests to appoint a special teacher to review evidence seized by the FBI in the agency’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month.
U. S. District Judge USA Aileen Cannon will hire a third party to oversee the FBI’s investigation, that is, to determine whether the evidence received deserves to be withheld due to certain executive privileges.
He is scheduled for 1 p. m. ET Thursday. Here’s what we know so far:
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The evidence collected at Mar-a-Lago likely “concealed and suppressed,” according to the Justice Department.
The Justice Department rejected Trump’s request that a special teacher review the evidence, arguing it would raise national security considerations and interfere with its investigations into whether the former president illegally took government-owned records.
In an explosive dossier released Tuesday night, the DOJ pointed to evidence that government records were likely “hidden and deleted” to “obstruct the government’s investigation. “The branch also rejected arguments by Trump’s lawyers that the former president can invoke executive privilege. to prevent federal investigators from reviewing the evidence.
The branch also questioned Trump’s cooperation with the FBI investigation, arguing that the former president failed to turn over several requested documents. After the FBI conducted its Mar-a-Lago raid on Aug. 8, the firm recovered “twice as many documents with the classification marked as the ‘diligent search’ that the former president’s lawyer and other officials had weeks to conduct,” the DOJ. lily said.
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Trump responded Wednesday to the Justice Department’s filing, saying the seized files are through his executive privilege and that he had “declassified” the documents before leaving office.
“Without oversight, the Department of Justice will challenge, disclose, and publish selective facets of its investigation without resorting to [Trump] yet to accept as truth with the restraint of lately unchecked investigators,” his lawyers wrote.
However, Trump’s legal team responded to the Justice Department’s suggestions that it had evidence that the records were hidden or hidden.
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Trump’s legal team also criticized the Justice Department for submitting a photo showing papers with classified markings strewn across the floor at Mar-a-Lago, according to the branch of “allegedly classified documents” to achieve a “dramatic effect. “
In addition, the former president’s lawyers called the raid “an unwarranted quest to criminalize a former president’s ownership of presidential and non-public records in a secure environment. “
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Cannon, who will chair the hearing on Thursday, said she is willing to accede to Trump’s request for a special teacher.
In a court case over the weekend, Cannon gave an account of the “preliminary intent” to appoint a special teacher, and signaled that he would make a final resolution at Thursday’s hearing. However, under pressure that its initial resolution would not be a final resolution. .
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If granted, prosecutors will likely ask for safe situations about how the procedure works, restricting the role of the special teacher to obstructing the Justice Department’s investigation of fraud.
“The appointment of a special teacher to review documents that would possibly be the subject of executive privilege claims would be inappropriate, as binding Supreme Court precedent precludes the plaintiff’s argument that review of those documents through the executive raises such privilege concerns. “the Justice Department said in its File Tuesday.