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The department of justice’s investigation into the government secrets found at Mar-a-Lago ground to a halt after a Trump-appointed federal judge last week granted an order for a special master to oversee the documents.
The government is demanding that its access to the documents be restored, or it will take the matter up to a higher court. Trump’s lawyers are expected to make their counterargument in the filing due at 10 am.
It’s a tortuous case, and here are more details from The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell about just what the government is asking:
Meanwhile, the Senate intelligence committee wants its own briefing on what was found at Mar-a-Lago. “Some of the documents involved human intelligence, and if that information got out people will die,” Mark Warner, the committee’s Democratic chair, said on Sunday. “If there were penetration of our signals intelligence, literally years of work could be destroyed.”
But the judge’s order also means it’s unclear when that briefing could happen.
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump have submitted their counterargument to the justice department’s attempt to halt a federal judge’s order preventing them from reviewing documents taken from Mar-a-Lago.
The filing is the latest in the squabble over the special master Trump wants appointed to sift through the documents, which the government has objected to because it stops them from reading the materials seized from the former president’s south Florida estate.
You can read the filing here.
More Americans than you might think have an affinity for unelected leaders, according to new data from the Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index.
The survey shows that anti-democratic views exist among minorities of both Republicans and Democrats, with 33% of voters surveyed agreeing with the statement “Strong, unelected leaders are better than weak elected ones”.
