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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nicola Slawson

First Thing: Judge proposed by Trump appointed in Mar-a-Lago records case

FILE - An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 31, 2022. A federal judge has appointed Raymond Dearie, a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's home last month. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
An aerial view of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

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A federal judge has named Raymond Dearie, a senior US district judge with experience handling US national security matters, as an independent arbiter to vet records seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Florida estate in an ongoing criminal investigation.

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