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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.

Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022

Judge grants Donald Trump's special master bid in document probe

The US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into classified documents kept at former president Donald Trump's Florida home – a judge's ruling could delay the probe.

ABC News · Sep 6, 2022

Trump wins bid for ‘special master’ for Mar-a-Lago records

A federal judge granted Donald Trump’s request for a neutral third party to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and temporarily barred the government from using the trove to develop its criminal investigation into the former president.

Tribune News Service · Sep 5, 2022

US judge pauses review of documents seized from Trump’s home

Court grants former president’s request to appoint a neutral ‘special master’ to review material for privileged content.

Al Jazeera · Sep 5, 2022

Trump's special master request granted

The decision was immediately decried by some legal experts. Here's what one had to say

Salon · Sep 5, 2022

Federal judge grants Trump's special master request to review Mar-a-Lago materials

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago last month.

WEKU · Sep 5, 2022

Trump claims the US ‘is rapidly becoming a Third World Nation’

Former president goes on unhinged Truth Social rant amid FBI raid scrutiny

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2022

Kash Patel: Trump's "wizard" unveiled

In "The Plot Against the King," Trump sycophant paints his former boss as hapless victim of "Hillary Queenton"

Salon · Sep 5, 2022

Florida man and ‘Mother Theresa’ accused of raising $196 million in a Ponzi scheme

MIAMI — Filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department accuse a Fort Lauderdale man of getting $6.5 million of the $42 million defrauded from investors via a Ponzi scheme run through a North Lauderdale woman’s company.

Miami Herald · Sep 4, 2022

DOJ: Trump required to comply with subpoena even if he'd declassified documents

A May subpoena requested all documents "bearing classification markings," regardless of whether they'd been declassified.

Axios · Sep 4, 2022