Washington — The Justice Department and Trump legal team submitted their lists of possible special master candidates to review the documents seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August.
In a joint filing late Friday, prosecutors and Trump’s team each submitted two candidates for the role.
The government recommended two retired federal judges: Barbara Jones, who served in federal district court in Manhattan, and Thomas Griffith, who served on the the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The former president’s legal team suggested Rayond Dearie, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and Paul Huck, Jr., former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Florida.
The parties said they would respond to the other’s pair of candidates by Monday. It is unclear if there are any objections by either side to the other’s proposed candidates.
Jones, now a partner at a New York law firm, has served as special master in two other Trump-focused investigations: looking for attorney-client privileged information in material seized in connection with the prosecution of the former president’s one-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, and in an investigation targeting Rudy Giuliani.
Griffith, currently a lecturer at Harvard Law school, was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by then-President George W. Bush in 2005. Before that, he served as the nonpartisan Senate Legal Counsel, where he advised the Senate on issues like the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton.
Dearie was appointed to the federal bench in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York by Ronald Reagan in 1986 after serving as chief of the Appeals Division in the Office of the United States Attorney. He currently serves as a senior judge in that court. Dearie also served in the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorizes the surveillance of individuals inside the United States. In that capacity, he signed off on the FISA warrant of then-Trump aide Carter Page in 2017.
Huck, currently the sole partner of a law firm that bears his surname, served as chief counsel for Florida Republican Governor Charlie Christ — who is now running again for the same seat on the Democratic ticket — and was second in charge at the state Attorney General’s office. His wife, federal Judge Barbara Lagoa,…
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