last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
he led the lengthy negotiations that produced the iran nuclear code, the administration s signature foreign policy achievement. trump, during his presidential campaign, called the deal insane and a disaster. on may 7, 2018, trump tweeted about mr. kerry s, quote, possibly illegal shadow diplomacy, an apparent reference to mr. kerry having conversations as a private citizen with iranian and other officials. trump tweeted another attack on mr. kerry the next day, the same day trump announced the united states was withdrawing from the accord. an justice department officials told his office he would be responsible for investigating mr. kerry s iran-related conduct. the fbi would join the inquiry. the focus was on the logan act, a rarely evoked 1799 statute barring private citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments, which has been criticized as unconstitutionally vague. mr. berman notes no one has ever been successfully prosecuted under the law, but the conduct that ha