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Politico reports: Donald Trump urged a federal judge Monday to keep in place her order that blocked the Justice Department from continuing its criminal investigation into the highly sensitive government records stashed in the basement of his Mar-a-Lago estate. The filing, a response to prosecutors’ warning that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s unorthodox directive— preventing FBI investigators from accessing the …

“He’s not the president, and we do have some special exceptions for someone actually in the office. So, I do think that, just like any American, if there is evidence, that evidence should be pursued. “But I know it’s not an easy call. And so, I don’t want to inject my opinion into that difficult calculation. Because I don’t know …

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department has subpoenaed two former top White House political advisers under President Donald J. Trump as part of a widening investigation related to Mr. Trump’s post-election fund-raising and plans for so-called fake electors, according to people briefed on the matter. Brian Jack, the final White House political director under Mr. Trump, and Stephen …

Politico reports: The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump presented dueling visions Friday night of the process and personnel for an outside review of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month as part of an FBI investigation into alleged illegal possession of classified documents. Prosecutors and lawyers for Trump each presented two options for potential “special master” candidates …

Reuters reports: An Illinois man on Friday pleaded guilty to assaulting a Reuters journalist and a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Shane Jason Woods, 44, of Auburn, pleaded guilty in a federal court hearing in Washington to one felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding police …

Reuters reports: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s team may not have returned all the classified records removed from the White House at the end of his presidency even after an FBI search of his home, U.S. prosecutors warned on Thursday, calling it a potential national security risk that needs investigation. That revelation came in a Justice Department court filing asking …

CNBC reports: The Department of Justice said Thursday it is appealing a federal judge’s ruling to authorize a special master to review documents that the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s home Mar-a-Lago. The move came three days after Judge Aileen Cannon approved Trump’s request for that outside watchdog to sift through the seized materials to identify personal items …

Law & Crime reports: Ushered into a Manhattan criminal courtroom in handcuffs, a smirking Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to six criminal charges related to a scheme to defraud donors of We Build the Wall. The indictment broadly mirrors the federal allegations pardoned by former President Donald Trump. Officers removed Bannon’s handcuffs before the proceedings began, and from there, the …

From the Justice Department: A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers and inflicting bodily injury during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Justin Jersey, …

Axios reports: Richard Michetti, a Pennsylvania man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison on Tuesday, per the Department of Justice. Michetti, who was arrested in February, was turned over to the FBI by a former girlfriend after he called her a “moron” for not believing that the 2020 election was stolen, …

The Guardian reports: The FBI’s detailed inventory list of materials seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was made public on Friday morning, providing a closer look at the highly-sensitive government documents that were retrieved from the former president’s office and a storage area at the property. The inventory was unsealed after the federal judge overseeing Trump’s request for a special …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge signaled on Thursday that she remained open to granting former President Donald J. Trump’s request to appoint an independent arbiter to go through documents the F.B.I. seized from him last month, but stopped short of making a final decision. After a nearly two-hour hearing, the judge, Aileen M. Cannon of the Federal …

NBC News reports: Consistent with the terms of the search warrant, the Justice Department said in the filing that “the government seized the contents of a desk drawer that contained classified documents and governmental records commingled with other documents.” “The other documents included two official passports, one of which was expired, and one personal passport, which was expired,” it said. …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s legal team is arguing that the sensitive information contained in classified documents recovered from his Florida home “should have never been cause for alarm” in its latest filing arguing for a special master to review the documents. The claim came in a Wednesday night filing as Trump asks the court to appoint a third …

CNN reports: US government documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to “obstruct” the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a blockbuster court filing Tuesday night. More than 320 classified documents have now been recovered from Mar-a-Lago, the Justice …

The Washington Post reports: Justice Department political appointees cannot participate in campaign-related activities in any capacity, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday, describing the change as necessary “to maintain public trust and ensure that politics — both in fact and appearance — does not compromise or affect the integrity of our work.” The new policy underscores the intense political scrutiny …

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge’s weekend order indicating that she was inclined …

NBC News reports: A “pissed off” Donald Trump fan was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for assaulting law enforcement officers with a Trump flag and joining a mob to use a giant Trump billboard as a battering ram when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The government said that Howard Richardson, a 72-year-old from King of …

CNN reports: A redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit has been released after a federal judge’s orders. CNN is reviewing the document now. The affidavit was filed by the Justice Department when it sought a warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. It lays out why investigators believed there was probable cause that …

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the disclosure of location information provided by Facebook to the FBI about users inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did not violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights of a defendant who live-streamed his breach of the building. Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued the ruling Wednesday …