The withholding of so many records shows the Biden administration “is in cover-up mode” over the raid, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to step into his dispute with the Justice Department over classified records removed in August from his Mar-a-Lago resort by the FBI.
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers moved to oppose the Department of Justice’s recent bid to speed up its court appeal of the appointment of a special master.
Judge Gary Klausner admits that the FBI probably hid their true motives in rifling through the contents of hundreds of safe deposit boxes, but says that’s fine.
“Not only did your office turn a local dispute into a national case, but the FBI reportedly executed the search warrant in as extreme a manner as one can imagine,” a Sept. 26 letter, sent individually by Sen. Josh Hawley said. “The FBI admitted in a statement that as many as 20 agents were present with their guns drawn.”
Houck was handcuffed in front of his wife and seven children during the 7 a.m. arrest and search of his home.
The special master on Sept. 24 approved a request from U.S. officials for more time to provide former President Donald Trump and his counsel the thousands of documents that FBI agents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August.
Trump’s attorneys argued that their client would do better to make the disclosure together with a motion seeking the recovery of property.
Trump’s legal team added that the court’s order “is a sensible preliminary step towards restoring order from chaos.”
“The Government should therefore not be permitted to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion,” they wrote.
The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a motion to appeal a federal judge’s ruling to allow a special master to review evidence seized from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
Attorneys representing the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project are suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for refusing to grant expedited processing of the conservative non-profit’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for copies of communications at the center of the FBI’s controversial Aug. 8 raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
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