August 29, 2022

Re Trumps Request for Special Master .. DoJ has already done that

https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/status/1564260557875732480

NEW: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by filter team, Justice Dept. tells judge. Officials say the attorney-client privilege review was completed even before the judge's weekend ruling suggesting a special master might be appointed.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.31.0_6.pdf

Although the government will provide the Court more detail in its forthcoming
supplemental filing, the government notes that, before the Court issued its Preliminary
Order, and in accordance with the judicially authorized search warrant's provisions,
the Privilege Review Team (as described in paragraphs 81-84 of the search warrant
affidavit) identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client
privileged information, completed its review of those materials, and is in the process
of following the procedures set forth in paragraph 84 of the search warrant affidavit to
address potential privilege disputes, if any.

The DoJ response tomorrow will deal with some of the other bogus claims like those related to executive privilege (already waived in writing by the White House and backed up by a SCOTUS decision against Trump last winter) and the Presidential Records Act Trump pretending it applies when the warrant did not rely on it nor need to.

August 29, 2022

Hey Lindsey, if u get indicted, no one will be rioting in the streets for u

Not even the mango in FL

Fani Willis, DA, Georgia responding to Lindsey's latest BS in the Georgia election case
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.305825/gov.uscourts.gand.305825.42.0_1.pdf

I'll leave Fani to speak for herself and the people of Georgia in the link above.
You'll see just how capable she is.
Lindsey is no match for her.

She clobbers him.

August 29, 2022

Key Details about Trump's lawyer for the Mar-a-lago cases

Emptywheel is nearly always excellent. No disappointment with this post:

KEY DETAILS ABOUT EVAN CORCORAN THAT EVAN CORCORAN DID NOT DISCLOSE TO JUDGE AILEEN CANNON (CAPS from Emptywheel blog)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/29/key-details-about-evan-corcoran-that-evan-corcoran-did-not-disclose-to-judge-aileen-cannon/

DoJ has until tomorrow to respond. As of the writing of the judge's order, DoJ had not been properly served

Evan Corcoran is a lawyer for Trump.

Emptywheel documents a bunch of the issues related to Corcoran and this Special Master case.
I'll let their good blog speak for itself.

Corcoran did the search for the classified documents in June and drafted the letter that the OAN Tv personality lawyer (Christina Bobb) signed.

The OAN TV personality lawyer (Christina Bobb) signed the letter because she was the custodian of the documents.
So who gave her and Corcoran top level security clearance and when? ....

And since they were involved in the search and the letter falsely declaring to the FBI that there were no more classified documents at Mar-a-lago, who is the lawyer representing them against the potential obstruction charges?

Corcoran has some significant conflict of interest issues here as Emptywheel points out. It's a great blog post.

Tomorrow, DoJ has to respond (as they finally got served properly).
They're going to cream these buffoons on the Presidential records act, etc.
Wednesday is not going to be a good day for Trump with respect to this case as the media covers the response

August 27, 2022

Affidavit in a nutshell

Fun tweet

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1563286804086009859