Special Master Dearie established a case management plan with document log deadlines, processing procedures, and handling specifications for the DOJ and Trump's counsel to follow for the seized #MarALago documents.
Plan includes recruitment of former United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York James Orenstein to assist Dearie's work for an "efficient administration of the Special Master’s duties."
The parties are able to file objections or motions to adopt or modify the case management plan until Sept. 27, after which any rights to object to the plan will have been waived.
2/2: the requirement that classified documents under review be made available to Trump’s counsel for inspection under supervision of the special master.
The department's motion, which was filed only last week, had asked the court to stay that portion of Judge Aileen Cannon's order that enjoined its review and use of approximately 100 classified documents.
The court first held that the government was likely to succeed on its claim that Cannon had erred in exercising equitable jurisdiction to enjoin the department's review and use of the marked classified documents and to require their production for the Special Master's review.
Out now--The more detailed Receipt of Property that lists items collected during the FBI's Aug. 8 search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
The live-course will be open to Lawfare’s material supporters, and we will edit and post each recorded class session onto YouTube as videos that will amount to a public course on computer hacking.
Does this imply the existence of a Lawfare below deck? Yes. And we are all in there reading the motion filed last night so we can tell you what's in it 👇👇👇
The team has 8 standards against which you can usefully measure how much confidence you should have in the Justice Department’s investigation over the next several months.
First, is there additional movement on the John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark cases?
Second, what do we know about the role of the Justice Department Office of Inspector General in conducting the investigations of Clark and Eastman? And how coordinated is that inspector general probe with the DOJ’s other investigatory work on Jan. 6?