A federal magistrate judge on Thursday said he may be willing to unseal portions of an affidavit used to apply for the search warrant on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, ordering Justice Department officials to suggest redactions to the document. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said he believes the Justice Department has not sufficiently shown that…
Author: Harper Neidig
DOJ says unsealing Trump warrant affidavit would jeopardize investigation
The Justice Department on Monday told a federal judge that releasing the law enforcement affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former President Trump’s home would jeopardize an ongoing investigation. Federal prosecutors submitted a court filing opposing any efforts to unseal the document laying out probable cause for the search. The filing came just…
Trump suspected of violating Espionage Act, according to search warrant
Federal law enforcement suspected former President Trump had violated the Espionage Act and other laws when it sought and obtained a search warrant for his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to court records unsealed Friday. The unsealed warrant shows that investigators were authorized to seize any documents or records with classified markings or related to the “transmission…
DOJ asks court to unseal Trump search warrant
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to unseal a warrant authorizing a search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this week following escalating demands for answers about the unprecedented investigation. “The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a…
DOJ subpoenaed Trump months before Mar-a-Lago search: report
The Justice Department subpoenaed former President Trump months before federal law enforcement executed a search warrant of his Mar-a-Lago estate this week, The New York Times reported Thursday. According to the Times, investigators had been concerned about classified national security information that might have remained at Trump’s Florida property, even in the months after the…
Appeals court rules IRS must provide Trump’s tax returns to House committee
The Internal Revenue Service must hand over former President Trump’s tax returns to a House committee, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dismissing a long-running legal challenge to block tax officials from complying with a request for the records from Democratic lawmakers. A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously sided…
Justice subpoenas of Trump counsel mark turning point
The Justice Department’s grand jury subpoenas to former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and others in former President Trump’s inner circle mark a turning point in the federal law enforcement investigation of the former president. The grand jury probe has considerably more power than the House Jan. 6 select committee to pierce any executive…
DOJ files civil rights charges against four Louisville officers over Breonna Taylor killing
The Justice Department on Thursday charged four Louisville police officers with federal civil rights violations over the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, alleging they falsified documents in seeking a search warrant of her home. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges at a press conference Thursday, saying the officers knowingly misrepresented that a target of…
Judge refuses to delay Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy trial
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay a trial for a group of Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, rejecting concerns that the Sept. 26 trial date could coincide with new information from the House committee investigating the attack. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta told…
Graham renews effort to block Georgia grand jury subpoena
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is renewing his legal effort to block a special grand jury subpoena for his testimony as part of an investigation into former President Trump’s efforts to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 election results. Court filings submitted late Friday show Graham has tapped Trump’s former White House Counsel Don McGahn…