Donald Trump’s incompetent lawyers made a critical mistake: they asked a judge to make the Department of Justice explain why they executed a search warrant at the failed Coup leader’s home in exile at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump-friendly judge whom they went forum shopping for agreed to the request (Judge Aileen Cannon is not the magistrate … Read more
The relevant statute here is 18 U.S. Code § 1924 – Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material: (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, … Read more
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, drafted a statement which Trump’s Lawyer Christina Bobb (formerly an OANN TV host who promoted Trump’s stolen election lie and the Arizona “Fraudit”), who is said to be the custodian of the documents, signed. It asserted that, to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned, … Read more
Media organizations brought this lawsuit for the affidavit in support of the search warrant for the former guy’s home in exile in Mar-a-Lago. The federal magistrate must weigh the competing interests of transparency under the First Amendment, and the need for secrecy in Department of Justice criminal investigations to protect sources and methods in ongoing … Read more
A federal appeals court has ordered the release of the secret Justice Department memo discussing whether President Donald Trump obstructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Part 2 of the Mueller Report). The Washington Post reports, Court orders release of DOJ memo on Trump obstruction in Mueller probe: The … Read more