Trump and DOJ each propose candidates to serve as special master in review of Mar-a-Lago documents

Former President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Friday each enactment distant 2 candidates to service arsenic a court-appointed peculiar maestro who would analyse documents seized from Mar-a-Lago documents, portion staking retired vastly antithetic positions connected the scope of the imaginable review.

In a caller tribunal filing, the Justice Department projected Barbara S. Jones, a retired justice nominated by erstwhile President Bill Clinton, and Thomas B. Griffith, a retired appeals tribunal justice who was nominated by erstwhile President George W. Bush.

Jones is present a spouse astatine Bracewell LLP, wherever she focuses connected interior investigations, arbitrations and mediations, and has served arsenic a peculiar maestro successful astatine slightest 2 cases related to hunt warrants.

Griffith is simply a peculiar counsel astatine Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, has focused connected appellate litigation and legislature and interior investigations and is simply a lecturer astatine Harvard Law School.

Trump's ineligible squad projected Raymond J. Dearie, a erstwhile national justice nominated by erstwhile President Ronald Reagan, and Paul Huck Jr., erstwhile wide counsel to then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist who erstwhile served arsenic the state's lawman lawyer general.

Dearie besides served connected the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, portion Huck is the laminitis of a instrumentality steadfast and a erstwhile spouse astatine Jones Day.

Both sides volition respond to the other's projected candidates connected Monday.

The Friday tribunal filing besides spelled areas of disagreement betwixt Trump and the Justice Department implicit the scope of the imaginable papers review.

Trump's attorneys person pressed for the peculiar maestro to person entree to each seized materials, including documents with classification markings. They besides person insisted the peculiar maestro should find whether enforcement privilege applies, without having to consult with the National Archives and Records Administration.

The Justice Department opposes those parameters, arguing that immoderate claims of enforcement privilege should beryllium submitted to the National Archives.

The tribunal filing comes conscionable days aft Trump scored an aboriginal courtroom triumph erstwhile a national justice approved his request for a third-party to reappraisal the seized worldly for imaginable attorney-client oregon enforcement privilege concerns.

That ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, besides temporarily blocked parts of the Justice Department's investigation.

The Justice Department said successful a court filing Thursday that it volition entreaty Cannon's ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

Legal experts largely criticized Cannon's ruling, saying implementation of her bid would beryllium highly hard if not impossible, portion besides taking contented with her statement that the peculiar maestro should reappraisal the documents for imaginable enforcement privilege claims, alternatively of limiting the introspection to accepted attorney-client issues.

If a peculiar maestro is appointed by the court, that idiosyncratic volition reappraisal documents the Justice Department said are so delicate and classified that FBI agents and DOJ attorneys needed further information clearances to reappraisal them.

The Justice Department says FBI agents past month found much than 11,000 pages of authorities documents that — nether the Presidential Records Act — belonged successful the custody of the National Archives.

While Trump's ineligible team has argued that "unchecked investigators" could not beryllium trusted to abstracted retired privileged documents, the Justice Department has maintained that the classified documents recovered astatine Mar-a-Lago beryllium to the authorities and are not Trump's "personal records."