If allowing a special master is such a "modest step," why is Team Trump insisting the Master review every page of the seized materials--and let Trump's lawyers go through each page themselves for A/C privilege, exec privilege, and "highly personal" info? Not so modest, me thinks.
And why, if someone on Team Trump boxed up the stuff and knows what is supposed to be where, why do they need a Special Master in order to move for the return of stuff that is supposedly his alone?
Clue: They don't. It has never been about the return of property. It's always been about the twin pillars of any Trump litigation: delay and disparagement.
Here, the attacks on DOJ as partisan hacks continue--and now have been extended to ODNI, which Trump's team says "expeditiously 'facilitated'" a review of the classified materials found *after* they asked for a special master.
The chutzpah in accusing the intel community of shilling for DOJ after your client takes and keeps than 300 unique classified documents in places like his desk drawers is breathtaking, even for Team Trump.
p.s. Local rules in S.D. Florida limits reply briefs to 10 pages absent permission of the court. You think they had permission for their 18-page rant? Nope, no they did not. The rules don't apply. Wonder where they learned that.
Friends, my fave law prof used to say, “Read the rule. Read the rule. And read the rule again.” This is SDFL Local Rule 7.1(c): 
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