The judge who signed off on the search warrant for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home has come under scrutiny.
There were calls for protests at FBI field offices and a gathering outside of Mar-a-Lago by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Since approving the warrant, she has received threats of violence.
According to Dave Aronberg, the judge's official bio has been removed from the US District Court Southern District of Florida website because of threats.
We know a lot about him.
He earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from the University of Princeton with a degree in civil engineering.
He is married to Circuit Judge Carolyn Bell, who was appointed by Rick Scott, a Republican who is now a US Senator. Two children are shared by the couple.
He worked at the US Treasury as a trial attorney and at the Department of Justice as a policy advisor.
He was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
During his time as a federal prosecutor, he worked on the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
He quit the US Attorney's office in the middle of the case and went on to defend some of the employees. According to The New York Post, he faced a lawsuit from several of his accusers, who accused him of sharing information with the legal team of Epstein. He denied that he had done anything wrong.
Trump supporters tried to weaponize Reinhart's defense of the employees despite the fact that Trump has ties to them.
During his 10 years in private practice, he defended a Florida congressman who was under investigation by the FBI for putting his mistress on his payroll.
If law enforcement presented probable cause for a crime and concluded that a search warrant would help push the case forward, the judge is responsible for that since he was appointed as a judge.
The judge is known to be detail oriented and has played both sides of the political aisle.
Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, said that the man was a former prosecutor and a defense attorney.
He said that he wouldn't make a quick judgement.
Ellen Cohen is a retired prosecutor.
Cohen told USA Today that he brought a lot of search warrants to him. He wouldn't sign off on it just because the government gave him it.
He has been a political donor for both Republicans and Democrats.
The Obama Victory Fund received $2,000 in support of former President Barack Obama, as well as $500 for the Bush campaign, according to a report.
He's donated to several other candidates over the years, including a Democratic candidate for the Florida House.
A retired prosecutor told USA Today that being a judge is not a political position.
The approval of search warrants does not have a political equation. It isn't whether someone is a Democrat or Republican.
Aronberg said that the backlash against him was unfair.
Aronberg said it was damaging for the judicial system to have people believe that when a judge issues a search warrant it must be for something.
He was not available for comment.
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