Trump is asking Federal Judge Cannon to continue blocking the DOJ from reviewing his documents seized in the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.
Meanwhile, one of Trump’s picks for special master has been agreed to by the DOJ. Which means former Chief Judge Raymond Dearie will likely be appointed by the judge.
Via Fox News:
The Justice Department said in court papers on Monday evening that it supports one of former President Donald Trump’s proposed candidates for special master, Raymond Dearie, the former Chief Judge of the federal court in the Eastern District of New York.
On Friday, Trump’s attorneys proposed Dearie and Paul Huck Jr., a prominent Florida lawyer, as potential candidates to be special master.
The Justice Department said it supports the appointment of Dearie or either of the two candidates it proposed, but opposed Huck Jr. because he “does not appear to have similar experience” in presiding over federal criminal and civil cases.
Trump’s attorneys opposed both of the Justice Department’s picks – Barbara Jones, who served on the federal bench in Manhattan, and Thomas Griffith, a former federal appeals court jurist in the District of Columbia.
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon still has to formally appoint Dearie to the role.
I expect we’ll get a special master appointment soon since the DOJ and Team Trump are in agreement.
Meanwhile, it turns out that this former judge Trump is proposing signed off on the FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page:
After the DOJ agreed to one of the Trump legal team’s candidates for a special master, Maria Bartiromo complains that retired judge Raymond Dearie previously approved surveillance of Carter Page in the Russia probe.
Trump’s lawyers are the ones who just put his name forward! pic.twitter.com/ty4NpI7EMO
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) September 13, 2022
No wonder the DOJ likes this guy!
Seriously, I hope Trump knows what he’s doing here but this sounds like an ominous sign that he might have picked the wrong guy. I sure hope not.