His lawyers have requested that the judge pause the DOJ’s investigation into the items taken from Mar-a-Lago until the special master can complete the review, according to the court filing on Monday. HHS also said university scientists who want NIH funding for such studies must now have each proposal examined by an ethics advisory board. EST approximately three hours after Trump announced the FBI raid on his social media platform, Truth Social Civil War had been tweeted more than 35,000 times and became trending in the Political figures and Politics categories.

Trump is requesting the judge appoint a special master to oversee the review of evidence gathered at Mar-a-Lago. What is a special master and why does Trump want one? Here’s what we know now.Ī special master is a third-party attorney who is appointed by a judge to oversee some portion of a legal case.Īccording to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, judges appoint special masters to aid in handling pretrial and post-trial matters tried without a jury “that cannot be addressed effectively and timely by an available district court judge or magistrate judge of the district.”Ī special master may, “if conducting an evidentiary hearing, exercise the appointing court’s power to compel, take, and record evidence.”Ī special master may evaluate and rule on the admissibility of evidence in a trial, and will at the end of his or her duties produce a report on their work. After a shocking day in American history when a violent mob, incited by President Trump, stormed and breached the Capitol Building, Facebook and Twitter. Kash Patel appeared on Life, Liberty & Levin on Sunday night and exposed the fake news mafia for its fictional narrative. The 2016 presidential election featured 17 Republican candidates, prompting many of them to try to stand out from the pack. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment on the case, Trump v. Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Donald Trump, Kash Patel, laid bare the FBI’s invasive and unnecessary raid of the former president at Mar-a-Lago on August 8.

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