The Supreme Court dealt a loss to President Joe Biden's Department of Justice on Monday.
Justices declined to hear a case about whether the Justice Department may use “filter teams” that allow teams of federal prosecutors and agents not assigned to a given case to review seized documents claimed to be privileged before the privilege question has been resolved.
The Justices denied a writ of certiorari in Korf v. the United States, which questioned the legality of filter teams.
The DOJ recently employed a filter team to begin an initial review of materials and documents seized by the FBI during its August raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
During the raid, the FBI reportedly took thousands of pages of documents from Mar-a-Lago which Trump has claimed are declassified.
However, the DOJ was forced to halt its probe as Florida Judge Aileen Cannon appointed a special master to initially review the materials thought to be classified and illegally removed from the White House.
Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master appointed to the case, recently ruled that the former president must provide evidence of the records' declassification or else he will have to assume the records seized by the FBI are indeed classified. (RELATED: Special Master Deals Loss to Trump FBI Raid Case in Latest Ruling)
Dearie told Trump's team at the hearing, “You can't have your cake and eat it.”
According to The Hill in Korf, a “filter team” of DOJ attorneys reviewed materials seized during an investigation before a court had responded to claims of privilege on those documents.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit allowed the protocols to proceed without requiring the filter team to show that an exception to privilege may have applied to the documents.
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Very confusing article. Souunds more like Supremes ruled FOR allowing DOJ filter teams???
SURE DOES
Apparently you and Travalto have reading comprehension issues. The special master is dirty. The fact he is giving Trump’s legal team such a small time to review thousands of documents is telling. The whole idea is to smear Trump and his followers as criminals before midterms.
Trump is the final arbiter of classification and is entitled to any documentation produced during his presidency. SEE Constitution of the United States.This is another case of Deep state persecution by the WEF controlled FBI.
Why has this not been ruled an illegal search and seizure with everything that was seized returned to Trump? The warrant was overly broad, which is specifically enumerated as forbidden in the Constitution and there was absolutely no reason for them to take his personal attorney/client privileged materials, his health records, his will, his passports, his keepsakes like news clippings, etc. The fact that all those things were seized illegally should make everything from the search “fruit of the poison tree”.
Ok, so the Supreme Court says the DOJ cannot use filter teams now. They will use them anyway. Who is going to stop them?