Interesting development in the seizure at Mar-A-Lago.
The DOJ admitted to over-collecting documents, including but not limited to Trump's passports, such as document covered by various privileges.
DOJ has designated a process for separating materials that could be covered by executive privilege or attorney client privilege and hopes to return such memos to Trump within a couple of weeks. This raises serious, credible and legitimate questions about over-collection of evidence that could lead to significant legal challenges in the future. Notably protecting the president's 4th amendment, executive and attorney-client privileges.
Among the documents was a file on a presidential pardon regarding Roger Stone, which could help Republicans assert that the search was less about a document dispute (
muh nukes) and more about a hunt for derogatory Jan 6 information.
So, the FBI basically was on a fishing expedition, with a warrant not being about classified information, though mentioned, but instead being about all sort of other documents. In short giving the FBI carte blanche to anything they wanted from the Trump home.
Even though! Even though Trump's legal team was communicating with both the DOJ and FBI for the past 4 months.
All this, incidentally, furthering the fact that Telmar's earlier take is FOS.
In addition to the fact he clearly does not understand how the Presidential Record Act works...
The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. ß2201-2209, governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents that were created or received after January 20, 1981 (i.e., beginning with the Reagan Administration). The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of...
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