{"id":1627610,"date":"2022-08-31T06:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627610"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:34:40","slug":"doj-responds-to-trumps-request-for-special-master-says-classified-papers-were-moved-amid-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-responds-to-trumps-request-for-special-master-says-classified-papers-were-moved-amid-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Responds to Trump\u2019s Request for Special Master, Says Classified Papers Were Moved Amid Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-responds-to-trumps-request-for-special-master-says-classified-papers-were-moved-amid-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice has responded to a request by lawyers for\u00a0former President Donald Trump to have a\u00a0special master review materials that were seized from his Florida Mar-a-Lago home by federal agents in early August.<\/p>\n<p>In a court filing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/64911367\/48\/trump-v-united-states\/\">pdf<\/a>) on Aug. 30, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a> urged a judge to reject the request, arguing that Trump lacks the legal standing to ask for a\u00a0special master, and that \u201ceven if his claims were properly raised, Plaintiff would not be entitled to the relief he seeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an initial matter, the former President lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight as to Presidential records because those records do not belong to him,\u201d the DOJ wrote, citing the\u00a0Presidential Records Act, which they said, \u201cmakes it clear that \u2018the United States\u2019 has \u2018complete ownership, possession, and control\u2019 of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ also stated that the court \u201clacks jurisdiction\u201d to make a formal judgment on Trump\u2019s\u00a0Fourth Amendment challenges to the validity of the search warrant and \u201chis arguments for returning or suppressing the materials seized,\u201d and that \u201cfor those reasons and others, Plaintiff has shown no basis for the Court to grant injunctive relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Fourth Amendment\u00a0provides individuals with protection from unreasonable\u00a0search\u00a0and seizure.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ went on to state that Trump\u00a0\u201cis not likely to succeed on the merits; he will suffer no injury absent an injunction\u2014let alone an irreparable injury,\u201d and that \u201cthe harms to the government and the public would far outweigh any benefit\u201d to him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20\/GettyImages-1242578031-1200x799.jpg\"><\/a> Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Fla. drive around the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building &#038; Courthouse as the court on Aug. 18, 2022 holds a hearing to determine if the affidavit used by the FBI as justification for the raid of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate should be unsealed. (Chandan Khanna\/AFP via Getty Images) Special<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has responded to a request by lawyers for\u00a0former President Donald Trump to have a\u00a0special master review materials that were seized from his Florida Mar-a-Lago home by federal agents in early August. In a court filing (pdf) on Aug. 30, the DOJ urged a judge to reject the request, arguing that Trump [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}