Appeals Court: Trump’s Lawyer Must Turn Over Notes

The Washington Post reports:

A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawyer for Donald Trump must provide notes, transcripts and other evidence to prosecutors investigating how classified documents remained at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home months after a subpoena to return all sensitive files, according to court records and people familiar with the matter.

The panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a brief order Wednesday afternoon directing the parties “to comply with the district court’s March 17, 2023, order to produce documents” and ending an emergency hold on a ruling last week by a lower-court judge.

Trump’s legal team had appealed that ruling, which said the lawyer, Evan Corcoran, must provide evidence to prosecutors because his legal services may have been used to facilitate a possible crime — obstruction of government attempts to recover highly sensitive documents,

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State of play: the battle over whether Evan Corcoran must provide testimony, notes & other docs to the DOJ heads to a higher court on an extraordinarily quick timeline that suggests that the Dem judges intend to rule swiftly. @jdawsey1 @DevlinBarrett & me: https://t.co/OZelOzDfPC

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 22, 2023