more one-sided session than the 40-minute session or so held in atlanta today, free. judge panel heard the case. two other judges were appointed by donald trump. the other by george w. bush. all republican appointees to disappear scored. each of them relentlessly challenged donald trump s lawyer, and none of them challenged the justice department s lawyer, arguing that it was a mistake for a florida federal district court judge to appoint a special master in the case, and that their order should be reversed. each judge wanted to know the same thing, was there any precedent for appointing a special master to interfere with the evidence obtained by the fbi search warrant? is there any precedent for exercising equitable jurisdiction, and a pre-indictment scenario where there s no showing that the
and if you, if you can t establish that, then what are we doing here? the judges kept asking if this never before seen process of a special master s should be given to every person who is subject to a search warrant. are there any arguments that would be different than any targets of a warrant who wished to challenge the warned before an indictment? your honor, what i would say is that we are not looking for special treatment for president trump. and then donald trump s lawyer went on to ask for special treatment for donald trump. this is a situation where a political rival has been subjected to his first warrant with thousands of personal materials being taken. we cannot ignore that conduct of equity that consider certain
as one member of the committee pointed out today, 1329 days to get a very simple law enforced in america because congress was asking that law be enforced against donald trump. a trump appointed judge named trevor mcfadden disgraced himself forever by doing everything he possibly could to delay the case of the trump tax returns, including not ruling on it for over a year or making any statements about it at all. chairman mcfadden sat on the case, hoping that it will go away if republicans won control of the house representatives back in 2020, which did not happen and eventually, trevor mcfadden was forced to reach the only opinion he could legally reach, which is that the chairman of the house race means committee has a legal right to a copy of anyone s tax returns at anytime. then donald trump appealed that ruling to the circuit court of
subjected to his first warrant with thousands of personal materials being taken. we cannot ignore that conduct of equity that consider certain things such as the impact on the community when it comes to the criminal justice system. again, it ignores, it is a thing to concern, but the problem is that the search warrant was for classified documents and boxes and other items which are intermingled with that. i do not think it is necessarily the fault of the government if someone has intermingled classified documents in all kinds of other personal property. the classified documents were found in donald trump s desk. the justice department made the
cited a case. that s a good indication that perhaps no such case exists. the proper remedy at law would be in the criminal proceeding to file a motion to suppress. file a motion for use and you know, derivative used suppression of the evidence to an appointee. and then, it was donald trump s lawyers turn. i agree with the courts preface that there s not case law. i would start with the broader premise that there s also not a situation in the history of this country where a sitting president authorized a raid of a presidential candidates home. so we have some initial contacts. you think that rate is the right term for execution of a warrant? or execution of a warrant. that s fine. your honor, i apologize for using a more loaded term. it kept coming back to this. it seems to me the entire premise of the exercise of this extraordinary kind of jurisdiction would be that the seizure itself is unlawful.