WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department and former President Donald Trump proposed dueling candidates late Friday for who they believe should serve as a court-appointed special master to review thousands of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last month.
Trump’s candidates were Raymond Dearie, a retired former federal judge in New York and a former U.S. attorney, and Paul Huck Jr., a lawyer in Florida.
The government proposed two former federal judges — Barbara Jones, who also served as a special master in cases involving former Trump lawyers Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani, and Thomas Griffith, who had been on the D.C. Circuit until recently.