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    Little more……

    Judge Presses Trump's Lawyers in Special Master Hearing

    ‘As Far as I’m Concerned, That’s the End of It’: Skeptical Special Master Presses Trump’s Lawyers on Declassification Evasions at Hearing

    After the FBI found highly classified documents inside his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump sought review of the materials by a special master. Now that his choice for that position has been appointed, Trump’s attorneys struggled in their efforts to have the review process play out in the way they prefer.

    On Tuesday, a skeptical Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie pressed Trump’s lawyers repeatedly on their refusal to disclose whether he declassified any of the documents he brought to Mar-a-Lago — and if so, which ones.

    “The government gives me prima facie evidence that these are classified documents,” Dearie said, referring to the plain markings on the records. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it.”

    Dearie gave Trump’s lawyer James Trusty ample opportunity to explain why his consideration shouldn’t end there.

    On the eve of the hearing, Trump’s lawyers had filed a four-page letter urging Dearie to back off from his demand that they disclose declassification arguments.

    “We respectfully submit that the time and place for affidavits or declarations would be in connection with a Rule 41 motion that specifically alleges declassification as a component of its argument for return of property,” Trusty wrote in the filing. “Otherwise, the Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment without such a requirement being evident in the District Court’s order.”

    Dearie said he agreed that Trump’s lawyers have the right to assert that position, but he suggested that they would have to live with the consequences of that course of action.

    “You can’t have your cake and eat it,” the judge said.

    Throughout the litigation, top Justice Department officials — including Jay Bratt, the chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control Section in National Security Division, and U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez — have noted that Trump’s legal team has danced around the declassification issues. Their legal briefs have not said that Trump declassified any of the documents, which were marked “Top Secret” and above. The lawyers only said that Trump may have declassified them.

    During Tuesday’s hearing, the judge needled Trump’s lawyers on what he’s supposed to do in light of the fact that the government provided “prima facie evidence” of classification, such as the markings on the documents.

    “As far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it,” Dearie said.

    When Dearie spoke offhandedly of lawyers’ “litigation strategy,” Trusty played down the notion that he was engaged in “gamesmanship.” Trusty denied the implication.

    Under the terms of the order of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, the special master’s review should be completed some time after Thanksgiving. Trump’s attorneys have asked Dearie to extend the deadline.

    Dearie appeared to recognize that he is on a time crunch — and seemed unlikely to budge from it.

    “I’m going to do the best I can with the time available to us,” Dearie said.

    The lawyers only said that Trump may have declassified them.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    ^ And right now, the former president is going "I'm a former King!!! "They can't do this to me!"

    I'm guessing though that Ivanka will be the sexiest woman ever to wear handcuffs.

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    Perhaps he can arrange conjugal visits, with Ivanka, at Rikers island.

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    New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday accusing former President Trump and members of his family of financial fraud and referring them to federal prosecutors and the IRS for criminal investigation.

    Why it matters: Trump now faces legal peril in at least three distinct cases, one in New York, one in Georgia and one regarding classified materials — right ahead of midterms and his decision on whether to announce a 2024 presidential campaign.


    • James, a Democrat up for re-election in November, signaled she would sue after rejecting a settlement offer from Trump's lawyers earlier this month.


    What to watch: If brought to trial in James' civil lawsuit, the Trump Organization could face severe financial penalties and restrictions on its ability to operate in New York State.


    • There was no immediate indication Wednesday whether the Southern District of New York or the IRS had agreed to open a criminal investigation after James' referral.


    The big picture: Trump's business practices and finances have come under intense scrutiny at the federal, state and congressional levels in the seven years since he entered the political scene.


    • Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg struck a plea deal with the Manhattan district attorney last month in which he admitted to running a years-long tax fraud scheme in coordination with the former president’s business.
    • Weisselberg is expected to testify against the company — which as an entity was also charged by the DA last year — when the case goes to trial next month.
    • But the DA's investigation has thus far failed to ensnare Trump himself, and Weisselberg is not expected to implicate the former president in his testimony.


    Between the lines: Trump has denied wrongdoing in any of the investigations that prosecutors or members of Congress have pursued over the last seven years, using the allegations to whip up his base and cast himself as the victim of a long-running partisan "witch hunt."


    • Trump has had an especially combative relationship with James, who called him an "illegitimate president" and pledged to aggressively investigate his business during her 2018 campaign for attorney general.




    What they're saying: "Another Witch Hunt by a racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who failed in her run for Governor, getting almost zero support from the public, and now is doing poorly against Law & Order A.G. candidate," Trump wrote on Truth, his social media platform.


    • "She is a fraud who campaigned on a 'get Trump' platform, despite the fact that the city is one of the crime and murder disasters of the world under her watch!" he added.


    Zoom out: While the New York AG's lawsuit and criminal referral have opened up a serious new front in Trump's legal battles, the more serious and imminent threats he faces stem from the federal investigations into his handling of classified documents and role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.




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    Key takeaways from New York AG’s lawsuit against Trump

    James accused Trump of misrepresenting his net worth numerous times

    Trump's financial statements were also misleading in "presentation," per the lawsuit

    Trump's financial statements violated generally accepted accounting principles, James said

    James outlines misconduct by Trump Organization across more than 23 different properties and assets

    https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/tru...torney-general

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    All 222 pages: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...s-children.pdf


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    A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and home, upending a trial judge's order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators' work on them.

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...mar-a-lago.pdf





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    court grants DOJ classified records request in Trump case

    A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday granted the Justice Department's request to resume reviewing classified documents that the FBI seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence for its ongoing criminal investigation.

    What they're saying: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in its ruling granting a partial stay that Trump "has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents."
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    This is more like it.

    Of course he can appeal the hell out of the civil suit, but federal charges for Banking and Tax fraud....

    Bring it!


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    Little more to my last post……..

    Two of the three judges on the panel, Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant, were appointed to the court by Trump. The third, Robin Rosenbaum, was appointed by President Barack Obama.



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    Just for fun.

    "There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it," Trump replied. "You know, there's different people, say different things."

    "If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, 'it's declassified' — even by thinking about it," Trump claimed.

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    Michael Cohen says the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against Trump is “going to ultimately terminate the Trump Organization, Donald, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Weisselberg, McConney, and the rest of them. This is going to put an end to the entire con.”

    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    I haven't seen this confirmed through other sources, but this is sweet!

    If true ... it's bye bye to the special master over-viewing the documents the FBI seizes from Trumps bungalow.


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    Judge Overseeing Trump-Mar-a-Lago Case Trims Special Master Ruling Within Hours of 11th Circuit Order

    The morning after the 11th Circuit’s blistering order unbounded a key component of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon struck portions of her special master ruling.

    The judge previously ordered the government to disclose — and temporarily refrain from using — classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. On Wednesday night, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit — two of whom were appointed by Trump — stayed and skewered Cannon’s findings that the former president may have a claim to the more than 100 documents with classified labels, including those marked “Top Secret” and above.

    “For our part, we cannot discern why Plaintiff would have an individual interest in or need for any of the one-hundred documents with classification markings,” the three-judge panel unanimously wrote in a per curiam opinion. “Classified documents are marked to show they are classified, for instance, with their classification level.”

    U.S. Circuit Judges Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher were appointed by Trump, and U.S. Circuit Judge Robin Stacie Rosenbaum was appointed by Barack Obama.

    All three quickly dispensed with Trump’s claim that he may have declassified the documents as unsupported and ultimately, irrelevant.

    “In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal,” the 11th Circuit’s opinion states. “So even if we assumed that Plaintiff did declassify some or all of the documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them.”

    None of the statutes listed on the FBI’s affidavit supporting agents’ August search of Mar-a-Lago turn on the issue of classification: the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and removal or destruction of records.

    “Under the Espionage Act, the classification does not matter,” former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner, a partner at Rottenberg Lipman Rich PC, noted in a phone interview with Law&Crime. “The reason we know for certain that the classification does not matter is the Espionage Act was enacted long before there was a classification system.”

    Though the appellate panel described their findings as “limited,” the rulings marked a wholesale victory for the government and a strong rebuke of Cannon. The 11th Circuit granted all of the relief the government requested, which prosecutors limited to the roughly 100 documents at issue. Along the way, the panel overturned all key findings favoring Trump in Cannon’s order, including regarding the public interest.

    “It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in ‘exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'” they wrote.

    Earlier this week, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie — the special master sought by Trump for the task — pressed the former president’s lawyers on their refusal to disclose whether they claim their client declassified the documents. He is expected to issue an order limiting the scope of his review in light of the 11th Circuit’s ruling.

    On Thursday morning, Judge Cannon issued an order stating that Dearie will review the seized material, “except the approximately one-hundred documents bearing classification markings.” She also struck portions of her earlier order preventing the Justice Department from probing the classified documents during the review and ordering them to disclose those materials to Dearie.

    Asked about that order, Epner told Law&Crime: “That was appropriately quick.”

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...cannon-922.pdf


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    Special master in Mar-a-Lago probe sets timeline to review documents

    The special master hired to sift through the documents seized from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has outlined his plan to review the materials.

    Driving the news: Judge Raymond Dearie in a Thursday filing said Trump's lawyers have until the end of the month to "raise any factual dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the Detailed Property Inventory" involving materials retrieved from the Florida property.


    • Trump’s lawyers must state whether they believe FBI agents actually lied about what was seized.
    • "For any document that Plaintiff designates as privileged and/or personal, Plaintiff shall include a brief statement explaining the basis for the designation," Dearie wrote.
    • The next conference on the matter is scheduled for Oct. 6, 2022. Both Trump and the DOJ must submit their "final and complete log of disputed designations" to Dearie by Oct. 21.
    • James Orenstein, a retired judge who served in the Eastern District of New York, will also assist in the special master's duties, per the filing.


    Worth noting: On Wednesday, a federal appeals court panel granted the DOJ's request to resume reviewing classified documents for its ongoing criminal investigation.


    • In the ruling, the judges noted that there's no record of Trump declassifying documents while he was president despite his claims.
    • Trump insisted in a pre-recorded Fox News interview broadcast Wednesday night that he declassified government documents before taking them to his Mar-a-Lago residence.


    https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...63.106.0_1.pdf


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    The special master assigned to review the documents taken during the August search of Mar-a-Lago is asking former President Trump to back up his claim that the FBI planted evidence on his Florida property.

    Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master selected after being out forth by Trump, told his attorneys they would need to submit a sworn declaration that details “a list of any specific items set forth in the [FBI’s] detailed property inventory that plaintiff asserts were not seized from the premises.”

    Trump made the insinuation just two days after his home was searched.

    “Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be alone,” he wrote in a post on his social media platform, “without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting.’”

    Trump asserted as recently as Wednesday evening during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that the FBI may have planted evidence during the search.

    “The problem that you have is they go into rooms — they won’t let anybody near — they wouldn’t even let them in the same building. Did they drop anything on those piles? Or did they do it later?” he said.

    Neither Trump nor his attorneys have supplied any evidence to back such claims.

    The plan from Dearie also asked for the attorneys to list a “description of contents or location within the premises where the item was found is incorrect” as well as to break down any property they say was taken during the search but not listed among the FBI’s inventory.

    The request marks the second time Dearie has asked the Trump legal team to back its claims.

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    I was one of the ones wondering why they were taking so damned long to take any action over baldy orange cunto's financial malfeasance, but when you see the scale of it, it's staggering.

    I'm sure he's going to try and bury the civil case in red tape for as long as possible, but the criminal charges for defrauding banks and the IRS no longer need to wait.
    The next post may be brought to you by my little bitch Spamdreth

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    A minor suit. But not to Mr. Dolan




    Man Seeks Sanctions Because Trump’s Failed Hillary Clinton RICO Lawsuit Wrongly Called Him Ex-DNC Chairman: My ‘Resume Is Available Online’

    One of the many defendants named in Donald Trump’s racketeering lawsuit against Hillary Clinton has moved for sanctions against Trump and his attorneys in connection with the botched litigation.

    Trump claimed Clinton and others, including Charles Halliday Dolan Jr., illegally conspired against his 2016 election campaign by engaging in a plot which alleged that Trump had colluded with Russia. Among the many named defendants were the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party’s law firm Perkins Coie, that firm’s former partner Michael Sussmann, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla. 23), Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorneys Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith, and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.

    U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the case “in its entirety” after the myriad defendants asked him to rubbish the proceeding. Middlebrooks concluded that a federal statute of limitations had long since closed on claims related to the 2016 election and because the case had little to no merit.

    Dolan’s name appeared in Trump’s original complaint as an alleged employee of the public relations firm Kglobal and as a “longtime participant in Democratic politics, having previously served as chairman of the DNC, state chairman of former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, adviser to Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and having been appointed by Clinton to two four-year terms on an advisory commission at the U.S. State Department.”

    “With respect to the 2016 Clinton campaign, Dolan actively campaigned and participated in calls and events as a volunteer on behalf of the Clinton Campaign,” Trump’s attorneys asserted.

    In a Wednesday memorandum in support of a motion for sanctions, Dolan said some of those facts were flat-out false.

    “Defendant Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr has been dragged into this lawsuit via speculation, rumor and innuendo,” the filing suggests. “Large and small matters are falsely and cavalierly presented in Plaintiff’s pleadings; any one of these false statements is grounds for sanction.”

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    Dolan’s counsel then suggested that Trump’s sprawling RICO lawsuit was little more than an attempt to “settle political scores via the judicial system” by offering “conjecture and speculation to concoct various causes of actions.”

    “But Plaintiff admits that his injury was political,” Dolan’s attorneys wrote, citing page 118 of Trump’s amended complaint. “Dealing with political issues is part and parcel of running for President and being President in the United States. Plaintiff does not get to sue for the rigors of a job he campaigned for.”

    Due to the aforementioned errors, Dolan’s counsel is asking Judge Middlebrooks to award sanctions under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A separate document called a praecipe indicates the Rule 11 issue is ripe for adjudication. Additionally, Dolan’s attorneys say they may join a future request for sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927.

    The praecipe says Dolan has paid $2,045 on a total bill of $16,274.23. Most of that time was furnished at the rate of $100 per hour by a group of highly seasoned attorneys. The rate is described in the document as a “low bono” rate. That’s a play on the phrase “pro bono,” which describes the provision of legal services for free.

    The praecipe adds that the lawsuit prevented Dolan from “obtaining credit” and “led to a significant loss of consulting business.”

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...et-268-269.pdf


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    • NARA withholding Mar-a-Lago search records to protect DOJ's "ongoing work"


    The National Archives and Records Administration says the Department of Justice has asked the agency to not share information related to the Mar-a-Lago probe "to protect the integrity of DOJ’s ongoing work."

    Driving the news: In a letter dated Thursday, acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall responded to questions from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee about the agency's previous refusal to turn over records to the lawmakers.


    • "As a general matter, the Department of Justice has requested that NARA not share or otherwise disclose to others information related to this matter at this time in order to protect the integrity of DOJ’s ongoing work," Steidel Wall wrote.
    • "I also let you know that 'NARA is preserving all records related to this matter'."
    • In an email to Axios, NARA said it released the letter publicly as "a proactive disclosure."


    The big picture: In the wake of the FBI's search at former president Donald Trump's Florida residence, House Republicans demanded additional information on the lead-up to the search and the materials found at the residence.


    • Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, and other Republicans on the panel sent a letter at the end of last month seeking to clarify NARA's role in the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago "and reiterate the request for a briefing and all related documents and communications," per a statement.
    • In Thursday's letter, Wall didn't rule out handing over records in the future. "To the extent that we are able to release any additional records responsive to your request in the future, we will make them available to you," she said.


    Go deeper: Top Republicans press DOJ for answers on Mar-a-Lago search

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    E. Jean Carroll, the author who alleges that former President Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, plans to sue him for battery under a new state law, according to court filings made public Tuesday.

    Why it matters: Carroll, who is in the middle of a high-profile defamation suit against Trump, had been unable to pursue legal action for the actual alleged assault due to the state's statute of limitations. Now the Adult Survivors Act, which gives adult survivors of sexual misconduct a one-year window to sue their abusers regardless of when the incident occurred, could give her another chance against her alleged abuser.

    Driving the news: Carroll's lawyer Roberta A. Kaplan wrote in an August letter to a New York federal judge that she will sue Trump for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress "on the earliest possible date," which is Nov. 24.


    • Carroll's team has requested a deposition to question Trump under oath. He "remains unwilling to produce" any court-mandated evidence, Kaplan said.
    • Kaplan has asked to consolidate Carroll's defamation case with her expected suit under the Adult Survivors Act.


    Trump's lawyer Alina Habba responded by asking the judge to reject the request, which she said would be "extraordinarily prejudicial" to Trump.


    • She also denied that Trump has failed to produce evidence and defended his use of "executive privilege" — a recurring tactic of his — to avoid handing over documents related to his verbal attacks on her character while he was president.


    The big picture: The former president has maintained that he did not rape Carroll, who sued him for defamation in 2019 after he branded her a liar.



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    On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow.

    CIVIL CASES

    E. Jean Carroll Defamation Suit

    Update-9: On Sept. 20, 2022, Carroll notified the court that she planned to file a second lawsuit against Trump over the 1990s rape allegation.

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    Summer Zervos Defamation Suit (CASE CLOSED)

    Update-2: On Oct. 4, 2021, the trial court ruled that Zervos could depose Trump before Dec. 23, 2021.

    Update-3: On Nov. 12, 2021, Zervos announced she is dropping the lawsuit.

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    Mary Trump Fraud Litigation

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    Panama Hotel Fraud and Tax Litigation (CASE CLOSED)

    Update: The parties filed a series of sealed letters in July and August 2021. On Sept. 15, 2021, the parties voluntarily agreed to end the suit.

    ______

    Doe v. The Trump Corporation Class Action

    Update-2: On March 25, CNN reported that former President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump all agreed to be deposed. Their depositions will take place in May and June.

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    DC Civil Suit over Misuse of 2017 Inauguration Funds (CASE CLOSED)

    Update-4: On May, 3, 2022, the Trump Organization and Trump’s inaugural committee agreed to pay a total of $750,000 to settle the suit. Under the deal, the Trump Organization will pay $400,000 and the committee will pay the remaining $350,000.

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    Karen Bass et al. Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

    Update-5: Trump filed his appeal brief on July 27, 2022. He challenged only the district court’s ruling that he lacked absolute presidential immunity, arguing that his speech surrounding Jan. 6 fell within his official presidential duties.

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    Eric Swalwell Incitement Suit for Jan. 6 Riots

    Update-8: Trump filed his appeal brief on July 27, 2022. He challenged only the district court’s ruling that he lacked absolute presidential immunity, arguing that his speech surrounding Jan. 6 fell within his official presidential duties.

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    Capitol Police Suit for Jan. 6 Riots

    Update-5: Trump filed his appeal brief on July 27, 2022. He challenged only the district court’s ruling that he lacked absolute presidential immunity, arguing that his speech surrounding Jan. 6 fell within his official presidential duties.

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    Second Capitol Police Suit over the Jan. 6 Riots

    Update-3: Trump filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint on Jan. 31, 2022. He once again argued that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim and that Trump’s speech was protected by absolute immunity and the First Amendment.

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    Third Capitol Police Suit over the Jan. 6 Riots

    Case Status: The officer filed his suit in DC District Court on January 4, 2022.

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    Metropolitan Police Suits over the Jan. 6. Riots

    Case Status: The officers filed their suit on January 4, 2022.

    ______

    NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Voting Rights Case

    Update-2: On June 16, the plaintiffs requested permission to file a second amended complaint with new factual allegations that could remedy the standing issues on the VRA claim.

    ______

    NY Civil Suit over Fraudulent Real Estate Practices

    Update-17: On Sept. 21, 2022, the NY AG sued the Trumps in NY state court.

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    Scotland Unexplained Wealth Orders

    Update: On Nov. 25, 2021, in a victory for the defendants, Lord Sandison ruled that only the Lord Advocate General of Scotland may issue a UWO, not the Scottish ministers. Advocates are now asking for the Lord Advocate to take action.

    _______

    Trump Tower Assault Suit

    Update-2: On Apr. 26, 2022, a court filing revealed fifty pages of testimony from Trump’s deposition. Trump testified that he did not send his security staff after the protestors or direct them to grab their signs.

    ______

    #17

    Michael Cohen Retaliatory Imprisonment Suit

    Update-2: On Aug. 2, 2022, the court heard oral argument on the defendants’ motion to dismiss.

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    CRIMINAL CASES

    Criminal Investigations into Trump’s Finances

    Update-12: On Aug. 18, 2022, Allen Weisselberg pled guilty to fifteen financial felonies including tax fraud and grand larceny. As part of the deal, Weisselberg agreed to testify if the Trump Organization ever goes to trial on the tax fraud charges.

    ______

    DC Attorney General Incitement Investigation for Attack on U.S. Capitol

    Update: As of August 2022, there are no public signs that the DC AG is still investigating Trump.

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    Fulton County, Georgia Criminal Election Influence Investigation

    Update-12: Senator Graham appealed the order requiring him to testify to the Eleventh Circuit, which then directed the district court to consider whether Graham’s testimony should be limited based on his legislative immunity claim. The district court ultimately ordered Graham to testify but also held that Graham could refuse to answer questions about his “investigatory fact-finding … related to his decision to certify … the 2020 presidential election” because those inquiries would fall under his immunized legislative duties.

    ______

    Westchester, New York Criminal Investigation of Trump Organization Golf Course

    Case Status: The full scope of the investigation is unknown but the office has subpoenaed records from the course.

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    #22 (the one case that’ll put it in jail)

    National Archives Referral for Mishandled Classified Materials

    Update-12: On Sept. 21, the Eleventh Circuit granted the DOJ’s motion for a stay, meaning that the DOJ can use the classified documents in its investigation and that the DOJ need not submit those documents to the special master for review. The appeals court agreed with the DOJ that Trump could not assert a personal interest in classified records, and also noted that Trump had so far refused to advance any actual evidence that the records had been declassified.

    __________

    Just for fun.

    'Fox News Sunday' panel discusses Trump legal problems

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    The Department of Justice filed a motion Monday asking a judge to order former White House adviser Peter Navarro to return government email communications he allegedly handled through a private account while serving in the Trump administration.

    Driving the news: "While serving as a presidential advisor, [Navarro] used at least one non-official email account, namely a ProtonMail account, to send and receive messages in the course of discharging his official duties," the DOJ said in its filing to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.


    • "There is no genuine dispute of fact that Dr. Navarro used at least one unofficial email account to conduct official business, that those records are the property of the United States, and that Dr. Navarro has refused to return the records to the United States," the Justice Department said.
    • "Indeed, his counsel has expressly admitted as much. Because Dr. Navarro remains in possession of property that belongs to the United States, this Court should issue a writ of replevin requiring Dr. Navarro to return what he wrongfully continues to possess."


    The other side: Representatives for Navarro did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment, but his lawyers told The Hill when the DOJ filed the lawsuit last month that he "never refused to provide records to the government" and he had "instructed his lawyers to preserve all such records."

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    Just for fun.




    CNN Wants to Know Whether Michael Flynn’s Relatives ‘Deleted or Destroyed’ Documents Relevant to Defamation Lawsuit

    The family of pro-Donald Trump retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has not turned over evidence relevant to their defamation lawsuit against CNN, prompting the news network to suggest that the relatives may have “deleted or destroyed original documents,” a new filing alleges.

    Flynn’s relatives sued CNN repeatedly in New York and Florida over broadcasts tying them to QAnon, after the relatives recorded themselves reciting “Where we go one, we go all,” a phrase appropriated by believers in the conspiracy theory. The first to sue over the broadcasts were Flynn’s brother John “Jack” Flynn and that sibling’s wife Leslie Flynn. Sister-in-law Valerie Flynn later followed suit. The Flynn family claims that the phrase, now a well-known QAnon slogan abbreviated under the hashtag #WWG1WGA, was merely a statement in support of each other.

    CNN has sought to test those denials in discovery, and their attorneys claim in a letter to the judge that Flynn’s relatives have not turned over responsive evidence.

    “For its part, CNN is not merely speculating that additional responsive documents exist that have not been produced; rather, CNN actually knows this to be true. For example, on September 15, 2022, nearly two months after the first meet and confer, Plaintiffs’ counsel produced a single text message conversation between Leslie Flynn and Valerie Flynn discussing the CNN Report at-issue,” the network’s lawyer Katherine M. Bolger wrote in a three-page letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave.

    According to a footnote, counsel for the Flynns designated the text message conversation as “Highly Confidential.”

    “This message is clearly responsive to numerous CNN [requests for production], and plaintiffs’ failure to originally produce it, only underscores that Plaintiffs’ counsel cannot rely on his clients’ representations that they have provided all responsive documents and communications to him,” the letter states.

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...-cnn-92622.pdf

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    Calls the LGBTQ+ community paedophiles.
    Fiddles with kids.

    Yep, sounds like a Republican to me.

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    The newest addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter, two sources familiar with the move tell CNN.

    Kise is expected to remain on Trump’s legal team but is not leading the work related to the federal government’s investigation into how the former President handled 11,000 documents seized from his Florida home in August following a lengthy effort by the government to retrieve them. The reason for the shift in Kise’s role remains unclear and he may instead focus his efforts on the other investigations Trump is facing, which range from his business practices to the January 6 insurrection.

    The move is notable given Kise, the former solicitor general for Florida, was brought on to the team after a weeks-long search and struggle to find someone willing to take on the case who was also experienced in Florida law. The legal strategy for fighting the Justice Department following the August seizure of over 100 documents marked as classified was also in disarray.

    Kise’s hiring came with an unusual price tag of $3 million, paid for by Trump’s outside spending arm. The retainer fee, paid upfront, raised eyebrows among other lawyers on Trump’s team, given the former President has a developed a reputation for not paying his legal fees.

    His sidelining will likely be read as another setback for Trump as he faces multiple investigations.

    Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said: “Chris Kise’s role as an important member of President Trump’s legal team remains unchanged, and any suggestion otherwise is untrue.”

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    The DOJ is having such a hard time finding document digitization vendors willing to work with Trump that it requested more time for the special master review

    A special master set to review tens of thousands of documents in the Department of Justice's probe of Donald Trump may have to wait a bit longer as several middlemen have blown off Trump.

    According to new court documents filed Tuesday, the DOJ is asking special master Raymond Dearie for an additional day to turn over non-classified documents in the investigation. Federal prosecutors said they needed until September 28 because none of the five vendors they suggested to digitize the cache of documents "were willing to be engaged by Plaintiff."

    "Plaintiff informed us this morning that none of the five document-review vendors proposed by the government before last Tuesday's preliminary conference were willing to be engaged by Plaintiff," DOJ lawyers said in a filing on Tuesday. "To avoid further delay in the vendor's scanning and processing of the Seized Materials (defined to exclude "documents bearing classification markings"), the government issued a request for a task order this afternoon with a deadline of tomorrow (Wednesday, September 28, 2022) at noon."

    Prosecutors said that they'd be willing to engage the vendors, adding, "the government is highly confident at least one vendor will respond."

    They also said that Trump should be expected to pay for the process, and that they estimated that between the selection of a vendor and scanning of the files, the turnover could be concluded by October 7.

    Recently, Dearie has appointed an aide who Trump will pay $500 an hour and has asked the Trump team to provide proof that the FBI planted evidence during their search of Mar-a-Lago, which Trump has claimed. In its latest filing, the DOJ also prodded Trump's team to submit an inventory list of the materials seized by the FBI.

    "The Special Master needs to know that that he is reviewing all of the materials seized from Mar- a-Lago on August 8, 2022 – and no additional materials – before he categorizes the seized documents and adjudicates privilege claims," Prosecutors said.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...8763.121.0.pdf

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    Trump’s Jan. 6 Impeachment Lawyers Will Represent Trump-Owned Corporation as New York Investigations Intensify

    Michael van der Veen, onetime Pennsylvania Attorney General Bruce Castor (who works at van der Veen’s law firm), and William Brennan (of Brennan Law Offices) worked alongside other lawyers to secure the 45th president’s acquittal before the U.S. Senate on one count of incitement of insurrection over the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex.

    Now, the trio will test their mettle with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in another marquee case involving Trump.

    “It will be like bringing the old band back together again,” van der Veen told The Legal Intelligencer‘s Justin Henry earlier this week. “As a criminal defense lawyer, you want to be involved in cases that are of significance and are professionally challenging. This is certainly one of those cases. This will be one of the most important cases in our country this year. It’s an opportunity to try a case on stage in Manhattan and an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up.”

    Van der Veen and Brennan have been working for the Trump family businesses since the summer of last year in relation to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s (D) criminal probe – as well as on a defense team handling a related civil investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D). It is unclear whether Castor has also joined that specific effort viz. the James civil suit.

    Now, with a real trial looming, the reconstituted legal team have acknowledged their reunion tour might be a somewhat harder show.

    “The case is a real uphill battle,” van der Veen told the legal publication. “What you read in that paper says they [in the Trump Organization] don’t have a chance because the CFO entered a guilty plea on all counts. But we really intend to distinguish the individual actors from corporate entities.”

    “We’ve been in tough battles before,” Brennan added. “But sometimes the only option is to go into the courtroom, pick the jury and defend the client to the best of your ability. And that’s what we intend to do. We don’t guarantee results, we just guarantee we’ll put up one hell of a fight.”

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    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit that pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell filed against Dominion Voting Systems as the voting machine company pursues a $1.3 billion defamation claim against her.

    In a three-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols granted Dominion’s request to toss the case after finding Powell failed to show that Dominion’s defamation suit against her constituted an abuse of justice.

    “Powell’s complaint fails to link her abuse-of-process claim to any act that Dominion has taken other than filing and pursuing its lawsuit,” wrote Nichols, who was appointed to the federal district court in D.C. by former President Trump. “She has thus failed to state a claim for abuse of process.”

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    I didn't realise Sidney Powell was one of the lawyers that defended Arthur Andersen et all for their Enron "efforts".
    Accused the prosecutors of "overreach"!


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    U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon brushed aside an order from the special master in the Mar-a-Lago case requiring former President Trump to back his claims the FBI planted evidence in his home in an order that also extends the deadline for completing the review.

    The order from Cannon comes after Trump’s legal team penned a letter to Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master, complaining his “management plan exceeds the grant of authority from the district court on this issue.”

    In Thursday’s order, Cannon agreed with Trump’s team, saying his attorneys would not be required to affirm the accuracy of the FBI’s inventory from Mar-a-Lago before getting a chance to review the records themselves.

    “There shall be no separate requirement on Plaintiff at this stage, prior to the review of any of the seized materials. … The Court’s Appointment Order did not contemplate that obligation,” Cannon wrote.

    Her order also extends the timeline to review the roughly 200,000 pages Trump stored at his home from Nov. 30 until Dec. 16.

    The shuffling of deadlines also allows other key filings from the Trump team to land after the midterms.

    Cannon sided with a requirement from Dearie for the Trump team to be more specific about what types of executive privilege he wishes to assert over the documents.

    Trump’s team must now label each document to claim whether it could be covered by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, as well as which presidential records he argues are his personal property.

    But his team is not required to make those claims until shortly after the midterm elections. Dearie had required Trump’s team to make those claims on a rolling basis.

    The order from Cannon comes after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Justice Department, ruling the district court judge erred by failing to siphon off classified documents from the special master process so DOJ could continue with its national security review.

    But that same ruling also indicated they believed Cannon largely erred in appointing the special master to begin with.

    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documen...-9-29-2022.pdf

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    So obviously partisan it's painful to watch.

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