The Florida-based federal judge whose rulings on behalf of former president Donald Trump temporarily blocked the Department of Justice from evidence seized during the 8 August search of his Mar-a-Lago home and office has officially tossed the civil lawsuit he had used to intervene in the criminal investigation into his conduct.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a one-page order dismissing the ex-president’s civil action on the grounds that she’d lacked the jurisdiction to hear it in the first place, bringing an end to the months-long delaying action by which Mr Trump had stymied Federal Bureau of Investigation efforts to determine whether he broke US laws criminalising unlawful retention of national defence information and obstruction of justice.
