In Documents Review, Special Master Tells Trump Team to Back Up Privilege Claims

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The special master reviewing materials seized by the F.B.I. from former President Donald J. Trump’s compound in Florida expressed skepticism on Tuesday about early claims by Mr. Trump’s lawyers that certain documents were privileged and thus could be withheld from a Justice Department investigation.

In a phone conference, the special master, Judge Raymond J. Dearie of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, complained that the log of an initial batch of documents over which Mr. Trump is seeking to claim privilege lacked sufficient information to determine whether the arguments were valid.

Judge Dearie encouraged Mr. Trump’s lawyers to give him a better sense of why they believed the documents could be lawfully shielded from the Justice Department’s inquiry into whether Mr. Trump unlawfully kept classified records at his estate and obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.

“It’s a little perplexing as I go through the log,” Judge Dearie said. “What’s the expression — ‘Where’s the beef?’ I need some beef.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/us/politics/special-master-trump-privilege.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. For the benefit of the younger DU'ers:

Where's the beef?

1984 Wendy's Where's the Beef? with Clara Peller #1

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I don't think there's anybody back there.

[Jim__]

2. "Trump don't need no stinkin' evidence" - Judge Aileen Cannon.

OK, that's not an actual quote; but it is in the spirit of her rulings.

[lark]

3. Wonder when she'll pull everything back from the Special Master and do "her own" review?

I think that was included in the original order, that she could pull it back. She's the worst of the worst.

[machoneman]

4. Seeing as how she's losing left and right with the 11th, she may not do so.

[lark]

5. I hope you are right and that she's not that crazy.

We'll see soon.

[Lasher]

6. 11th Circuit appeal timeline

Just a reminder:

Under the schedule set by the court, federal prosecutors must file their initial brief by Oct. 14, and Trump's team has until Nov. 10 to submit its response. If the Justice Department wishes to reply, it has until Nov. 17 to do so. No extensions will be allowed, the court said. Previously, the court's schedule provided that federal prosecutors were to file their initial brief by Oct. 19, with Trump's lawyers to respond by Nov. 18, and the government to file its reply by Dec. 9.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case-special-master-appeals-court-agrees-to-speed-up-justice-department-appeal/