{"id":1639109,"date":"2022-09-12T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639109"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:36:08","slug":"trump-fights-back-against-doj-asks-judge-to-reject-review-of-mar-a-lago-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fights-back-against-doj-asks-judge-to-reject-review-of-mar-a-lago-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fights Back Against DOJ, Asks Judge to Reject Review of Mar-a-Lago Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftrump-fights-back-against-doj-asks-judge-to-reject-review-of-mar-a-lago-documents%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=1639109&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>Former\u00a0President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s lawyers on Monday urged a federal judge to reject the Department of Justice\u2019s bid to keep reviewing documents that were taken during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> raid on Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers argued that the materials that were taken by FBI agents on Aug. 8 may not be classified. At the same time, while he was president, Trump had broad latitude in declassifying documents and has a \u201cright to access\u201d any presidential records whether they are classified or declassified, the attorneys added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records,\u201d Trump\u2019s team wrote (<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.84.0.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) to federal Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Cannon sided with Trump and ordered that a special master should be appointed to comb through the materials that were taken during the raid. A special master is generally a retired judge or prosecutor who is named to carry out some sort of action on the court\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>As FBI agents arrived in August, they took 11 sets of allegedly classified documents from Mar-a-Lago and asserted that some were marked \u201ctop secret.\u201d Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecutors also alleged the empty folders that had classified markings were found during the raid, and in one court filing, they included a photo that showed several documents scattered on the floor, some marked \u2018TOP SECRET.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors further said that there is a likelihood that \u201cimproperly stored classified information may have been accessed by others and compromised,\u201d which is a \u201ccore aspect\u201d of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ last week submitted its request (<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.69.0_2.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) for a stay of portions of Cannon\u2019s order pending an appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. When Cannon issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers on Monday urged a federal judge to reject the Department of Justice\u2019s bid to keep reviewing documents that were taken during the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Trump\u2019s lawyers argued that the materials that were taken by FBI agents on Aug. 8 may not be classified. 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