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DOJ, Trump submit competing candidates for special master

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.

Tribune News Service

Trump team, Justice Dept. to make new Mar-a-Lago filing

The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team are to stake out positions on the role to be played by an independent arbiter tasked with reviewing documents seized during an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

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Trump lawyers and justice department to file list of special master candidates

Judge’s special master ruling bars prosecutors from reviewing seized records as part of criminal investigation

The Guardian - US

More classified documents may be missing in Trump probe, US prosecutors say

Justice Department calls for investigation into potential national security risk

The Independent UK

Justice Department plans to appeal ruling for a special master in Trump Mar-a-Lago search

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice intends to appeal a federal judge’s decision to grant former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home, a ruling that temporarily halts the use of the records for investigative purposes.

Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Bernstein: Trump judge’s bad ruling might do some good

A decision Monday by a federal judge granting former President Donald Trump’s request for an independent review of the FBI’s seizure of documents at Mar-a-Lago last month has prompted an unusually forceful backlash within the legal community. It isn’t just partisan analysts who are reacting with dismay; criticism of Judge…

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Noah Feldman: Do ‘Trump judges’ exist? We’re about to find out

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Start circling the wagons. That’s the message a federal district judge is sending to other Trump-appointed judges by allowing a special master to review the documents seized from a Mar-A-Lago safe. By suggesting that former president Donald Trump might be able to invoke executive privilege after leaving…

Tribune News Service

Trump investigation: Where do things stand and what happens next?

An FBI raid, seized documents, and a court-ordered ‘special master’ review: Here’s what it all means.

Al Jazeera

New reporting about the Trump FBI raid suggests there really were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago

And Trump is not handling the allegations well.

Mic

Colbert on Trump special master ruling: ‘This decision is bonkers’

Late-night hosts return to discuss the federal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago resort

The Guardian - US

Teflon Don: How Trump keeps getting away

There is a reason Trump calls every allegation against him a "hoax." It works

Salon

Editorial: Trump-appointed judge hands Trump an undeserved victory. No surprise there

A federal judge issued a ruling on Labor Day that is, unfortunately, no longer surprising even though it should be shocking to all but the most MAGA-blinded Americans. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, ruled that executive privilege might apply in the case of the government-owned documents that the…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Special master": A dreadful idea

Our justice system is already deeply unfair. Insisting on a higher bar for Trump's prosecution only makes it worse

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The special master order for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents is perverse and potentially disastrous

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order requiring the appointment of a special master to sift through the property seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago has found few defenders. Its tendentious factual account and muddled legal reasoning are easy to denigrate.

The Guardian - US

The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law

Judge Aileen Cannon’s opinion screams out that she applies more lenient rules to Donald Trump

The Guardian - US

Why did a judge grant Trump’s request for a ‘special master’?

Critics say the decision to stop reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago until a special master is appointed is ‘unprecedented’ and ‘insane’

The Independent UK

Florida judge faces criticism following order in Trump case

A little-known federal judge appointed to the bench two years ago by Donald Trump is in the spotlight this week over her decision to hand the former president a major procedural win

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The Independent UK

Who is Judge Aileen Cannon and why is her role in the Trump documents case so controversial?

Examining the judge who will play a key role in Donald Trump’s legal defence

Salon

Trump's MAGA judge rules in his favor

Judge Aileen Cannon's "special master" ruling employs the same logic as the Big Lie and the Capitol insurrection

Salon

Legal experts: Trump judge "unfit"

Critics say Judge Aileen Cannon is "one of the most corrupt" judges appointed by Trump

The Guardian - US

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago legal victory starts search for special master – as it happened

US midterms campaigns kick into high gear after Labor Day as Senate returns from month-long break

Tribune News Service

Trump-appointed judge courts controversy with Mar-a-Lago order

When U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was up for Senate confirmation in 2020, she was pointedly asked whether she’d had discussions about loyalty to then-President Donald Trump before he nominated her to Florida’s federal bench.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Judge grants Trump’s request for special master over Mar-a-Lago raid

Federal court accepts ex-president’s call for official to set aside materials potentially subject to privilege protections. Plus, Chris Rock on Will Smith’s apology video

The Independent UK

FBI Mar-a-Lago search uncovered Trump’s medical records and accounts

In two instances, materials that should have been identified as privileged ended up with prosecutors, Judge Aileen Cannon notes

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