Trump and DOJ each propose candidates to serve as special master in review of Mar-a-Lago documents
Former President Trump and the Justice Department each proposed two candidates to serve as a special master who would review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Former President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Friday each put forth two candidates to serve as a court-appointed special master who would examine documents seized from Mar-a-Lago documents, while staking out vastly different positions on the scope of the potential review.
In a new court filing, the Justice Department proposed Barbara S. Jones, a retired judge nominated by former President Bill Clinton, and Thomas B. Griffith, a retired appeals court judge who was nominated by former President George W. Bush.
Jones is now a partner at Bracewell LLP, where she focuses on internal investigations, arbitrations and mediations, and has served as a special master in at least two cases related to search warrants.
Griffith is a special counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, has focused on appellate litigation and congressional and internal investigations and is a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
Trump's legal team proposed Raymond J. Dearie, a former federal judge nominated by former President Ronald Reagan, and Paul Huck Jr., former general counsel to then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist who once served as the state's deputy attorney general.
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