Trump and Justice Department submit special master nominees to review Mar-a-Lago documents

[turtleblossom]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump's lawyers have submitted their proposals to a federal judge for who should serve as special master to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago and how the process should work.

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The Justice Department nominated two retired federal judges -- Thomas Griffith and Barbara Jones -- to serve as special master.

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Trump's legal team nominated lawyer Paul Huck Jr. and Judge Raymond Dearie to serve as special master.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/politics/trump-justice-mar-a-lago-special-master-filing/index.html

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Hillary Clinton should be appointed as Special Master if there should ever be one.

[msongs]

1. amazing thaat the criminals and their enablers are running the show nt

[KS Toronado]

9. I know, how did that happen?

Why are tfg's legal team able to nominate anyone? We're talking Top Secret Government documents
and they want people without a security clearance to look at them?

[Justice matters.]

13. My understanding is the selected SM will only review the materal not classified

The DoJ wrote that there is absolutely no reason for anyone to review the classified documents. (Saying nobody aside from the current POTUS and some high-levels Cabinet member can "view" them due to their inherent sensitivity).

They already did the separation of the two sets of documents in the days following the search. They said now citizen trump doesn't own them as they belong to the Government of the United States: They are the government property.

[gab13by13]

14. Cannon did not agree to that,

she has until the 15th.

[onenote]

22. That is a point of disagreement between the parties

Here is the joint submission to the court that describes the areas of agreement and disagreement between the parties.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64911367/83/trump-v-united-states/

[forgotmylogin]

25. And the government documents are all clearly marked.

It shouldn't be difficult to sit with all the lawyers and somebody with clearance and divide out in two piles what is obviously a classified document with markings or in a folder with markings, and any "personal" paperwork for the SM to review without needing to pore over the details of the classified stuff.

[Eyeball_Kid]

21. DOJ, IMO, is holding out with their option to move the case to DC.

They know that the proceedings right now are all poppycock. Whether Cannon agrees or not, they should just bypass all of this sophomoric nonsense and move the case to DC, where people know how to handle stuff like this.

[onenote]

23. Almost certainly too late

Venue cannot be challenged after the fact. DOJ has had multiple opportunities to argue that the case should have been filed in, or should have been transferred to, DC. It has never made that argument. They can't just unilaterally transfer the case to DC.

[chowder66]

2. Just heard that Huck's wife is on the 11th Circuit and should recuse herself but Huck

himself doesn't have the same experience that the others do. And Huck is in the Federalist Society. Ahem.

This was on MSNBC the 11th hour with Barb McQuade. She thinks he's the least qualified.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. Huck is a Federalist Society member and the other is an Activist Judge. Okay.

[Slammer]

4. nominations

I'd like to nominate Jack Nicklaus.

He won the Masters six times.

[pfitz59]

8. Jack Nickalaus is a horrific Repuke

and a Trump humper

[SouthernDem4ever]

17. makes you wonder if senility has kicked in

maybe he mistook trump for Ike LOL

[twodogsbarking]

16. No assholes allowed.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. TFG's attorney refuse to advance TFG's claim that he declassified all documents

There have been several occasions for TFG idiot attorneys to make the argument that TFG magically declassified all documents. The DOJ attorneys sort of dared TFG"s attorneys to make claim in the last filing

Link to tweet

The DOJ has been taunting and daring TFG's Attorneys to make the declassification argument in open court where they would face sanctions if this claim proves to be false

TFG's attorney again chickened out and refused to advance the declassification claim

Link to tweet

One or more TFG attorneys will be facing sanctions and/or disbarment for lying to the DOJ in an affidavit. It seems that TFG's current attorneys are not totally stupid

[world wide wally]

6. Trump showed restraint by not nominating Jim Jordan

[vlyons]

7. or Louie Gohmert

Louie was a judge

[onetexan]

11. was gonna say - where's Cruz & lil Marco when he needs them?

[Roy Rolling]

10. No Contest: DOJ attorneys vs.TFG attorneys

With each filing, DOJ attorneys dare TFG to respond by implicating himself even more.

And TFG obliges.

Wait for his stupid quotes on his soon-to-be-bankrupt Twitler platform.

Stupid enough to make his attorneys shake their pointed heads.

[Girard442]

12. How is this not a complete s**tshow?

DOJ nominates distinguished jurists. Trump's team nominates Emperor Palpatine and the Borg Queen. Cannon then selects Palpatine (after giving due consideration to the Borg Queen).

[gab13by13]

15. Why is Trump allowed to keep the documents for 18 months?

Why does DOJ only act upon referrals from someone else, or from evidence gathered by the J6 committee? Even this classified documents case was referred to DOJ by the National Archives. The latest campaign donation scam of Trump's came about because of evidence dug up by the J6 committee.

People better wise up about DOJ treating Trump with kid gloves.

DOJ doesn't leak because it doesn't investigate until pressure mounts on it to act. Ms. Hutchinson's J6 testimony flat out shocked DOJ, why? Occam's Razor.

It doesn't matter who DOJ nominated, WTF, I'm watching football today, the insurrection continues.

Let's get something else straight, it isn't Trump appointed judges, it's Leonard Leo appointed judges funded by domestic oligarchs.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Yes, Trump was merely the stooge willing to go along.

Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, which includes insurrection helpers like Ginni Thomas, are the real evil behind what the Republican Party are doing. They believe in ultra conservative Catholic doctrine from the 1500s when the Holy Roman Church controlled life in all forms—government, business, religious, personal. And that is their goal for the US, for a religious hierarchy that governs and makes all laws people must follow. And they have the money to buy any number of politicians, plus their major coup is a Federalist Society Supreme Court majority that quickly began instituting special treatment for religion. That will only increase until they are stopped with court expansion.

[SouthernDem4ever]

18. thanks for the laugh

although it could turn out to be true LOL

[twodogsbarking]

19. Throw him in prison. Work out the details later; or not.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Seems to me TFG is getting everything he wants from this.

I wonder if/when the DOJ will just give back our national security documents to TFG. Maybe if TFG asks nicely? Maybe if goes and yells at Garland, he'll get all those stolen secrets back? Never know just what might work. Any trick in the book.

After all, he wasn't done selling out America. There's more wealth he can extract from us.

This is crazy to watch. If anyone else had done this to America, they would be in jail right now. So which oligarchs are covering TFG's butt?