The court-ordered review of thousands of documents seized from Donald Trump’s Florida home by the FBI can be streamlined if five “global issues” are quickly resolved, a judge was told.
Key areas of disagreement include whether the former president had authority to convert presidential records to personal ones during and after his term, and if pardon request documents received while he was president belong to him or the government, lawyers for Trump and the Justice Department said in a joint filing Wednesday.
The court-appointed special master appointed to oversee this process, U.S. District Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, ordered the parties to file briefs outlining their arguments by Nov. 8. Dearie faces a Dec. 16 deadline to complete his review and submit recommendations to a Florida judge.
