Veteran NY judge named as arbiter in Trump Mar-a-Lago probe

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has appointed a veteran New York jurist to serve as an independent arbiter and review records seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month.

The selection of Raymond Dearie, a former federal prosecutor who for years served as the chief judge of the federal court based in Brooklyn, came after both the Justice Department and Trump’s lawyers made clear that they would be satisfied with his appointment as a so-called special master.

In that role, Dearie will be responsible for reviewing the documents taken during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and segregating out any that may be covered by claims of privilege. It is not clear how long the work will take but the special master process has already delayed the investigation, with a judge in Florida directing the Justice Department to temporarily pause core aspects of its probe.

The Justice Department is investigating the hoarding of top-secret materials and other classified documents at the Florida property after Trump left office. The FBI says it recovered more than 11,000 documents from the home during its Aug. 8 search, including over 100 with classification markings.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-donald-trump-brooklyn-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-4a6200ebc4fe6418c25ca380a43a6338?taid=6323b1f34118af00017ca976

[Marthe48]

1. How how has it been relegated to hoarding?

Traitor stole documents that belonged to the U.S. Government. Now, he's threatening top government officials and whistling for his henchmen to kill off the DOJ.

I don't care if there is violence in the streets. Plenty of America's enemies were pulled up short after Jan 6th. Get them to crawl out from under their rocks and arrest. Give them a taste of the freedom they lose when they try to destroy their country

[EndlessWire]

6. This is a very good point.

Especially since we know that there were empty folders.

[ificandream]

2. An important part of this story wasn't in the lead ...

It reads "US District Judge Aileen Cannon also rejected the Justice Department's bid to revive its criminal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month. The denial sets the stage for the department's dispute with Trump over the search to move quickly to an appeals court and potentially the US Supreme Court."

So from here the JOD will go over her head. As they should. This judge is an idiot.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. It merited it's own link!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142970068

[ificandream]

4. It did.

I don't think the second story was there when the first one was posted. But good on us anyway.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Different outlets were reporting this differently

Some were "combining" the 2 stories and doing "live updates" of either or both at the same link and others were just reporting them as separate stories (which was preferable, at least to me at this point, because the "live updates" are a PITA when it comes to LBN criteria of "headlines" and "stories" needing to "match" what is linked).