According to a new court filing, the Department of Justice and Donald Trump's lawyers want two people to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Barbara S. Jones, a retired judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas B. Griffith, a retired Circuit Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Raymond J. Dearie, a former US attorney and former Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, was one of the proposed picks by Donald Trump.
A special master will be appointed to review the records seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago. The decision was appealed by the justice department.
Jones retired from the New York's Southern District after 17 years after he was appointed to the bench by Bill Clinton. The other pick by the DOJ was appointed to the DC circuit by Bush and served until 2020.
Dearie was appointed to New York's Eastern District by Ronald Reagan in 1986 and served as chief judge from 2007 to 2011. The other was a partner at the law firm Jones Day and served as general counsel to the governor of Florida.
The Federalist Society is a group of conservative lawyers.
Some legal experts questioned the decision to grant Trump's request for a special master.
The special master's job of sorting through the documents would be the worst thing in the world, according to a former DOJ official.
Barbara McQuade was the US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Thankless. If you don't you're damned.
She said the only upside is that you get paid.
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