{"id":1639527,"date":"2022-09-12T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639527"},"modified":"2022-09-12T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:04:54","slug":"trump-team-opposes-dojs-mar-a-lago-special-master-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-team-opposes-dojs-mar-a-lago-special-master-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Team Opposes DOJ\u2019s Mar-a-Lago Special Master Candidates"},"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\">16<\/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-team-opposes-dojs-mar-a-lago-special-master-candidates%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=1639527&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 President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s lawyers on Monday\u00a0filed a motion objecting to special master candidates proposed by the Department of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a>) to review documents taken by FBI agents from Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys, in a three-page filing (<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763\/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.85.0_1.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), asked \u201cfor permission to specifically express our objections to the Government\u2019s nominees only at such time that the Court specifies a desire to obtain and consider that information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are specific reasons why those nominees are not preferred for service as Special Master in this case,\u201d the lawyers stated, saying that it will not provide a reason for why they oppose the DOJ\u2019s special master candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why, the filing added, is because \u201cit is more respectful to the candidates\u201d to not include their reasons\u00a0\u201cfrom a public, and likely to be widely circulated, pleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Court\u2019s Order required a list of proposed Special Master candidates but did not specify whether that is to include specific\u00a0advocacy as to why certain nominees are or are not suitable to serve as Special Master, Plaintiff has construed that Order in a limited fashion,\u201d the filing stated.<\/p>\n<p>If the court demands it, Trump\u2019s team would be \u201cwilling to provide our specific rationale for supporting our nominees if and when the Court so orders,\u201d the filing added.<\/p>\n<p> Special Master Picks <\/p>\n<p>The DOJ named\u00a0retired federal judges Barbara Jones and Thomas Griffith as potential candidates for the special master role. Griffith served as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, and Jones is a former federal prosecutor who served as a special master in other recent high-profile matters.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump, his team suggested\u00a0Paul Huck Jr., a contributor to the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society, and\u00a0retired Judge Raymond Dearie, who served as a federal judge in New York since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers on Monday\u00a0filed a motion objecting to special master candidates proposed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review documents taken by FBI agents from Mar-a-Lago. Trump\u2019s attorneys, in a three-page filing (pdf), asked \u201cfor permission to specifically express our objections to the Government\u2019s nominees only at such time that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1639527","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\/1639527","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639527\/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=1639527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}