Over the objections of the United States Department of Justice, District Judge Aileen Cannon, nominated by Trump in 2020, granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI during a search of his Florida home last month as part of the investigation of Trump for allegedly holding unsecured classified material in his residence at Mar-a-Lago.
The response from legal experts who understand the rule of law has been as clear as one would expect…
Weissmann. Katyal. Rangappa.
Nothing about the MAL search warrant process was special and her reasoning wd lead to appointment of a special master in EVERY criminal case. The only thing special is a former president stealing highly classified docs. Andrew Weissmann (@AWeissmann_) September 5, 2022
Weissmann was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1991 to 2002, where he prosecuted high-profile Organized Crime cases.
In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Weissman to be the deputy director and then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Enron Task Force. Weissman also served as the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2011 to 2013.
Starting in 2015 he became the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017, he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. To assume that position, Weissmann took a leave from his Department of Justice post.
Even though this Judge’s Order appointing a special master won’t stop the very serious Trump stolen docs investigation, having been the decider of whether DOJ should appeal various cases in the past, I think DOJ has to appeal here. Sets a terrible precedent. That’s what I’d do. Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) September 5, 2022
Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General’s office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. Katyal has argued more U.S. Supreme Court cases than any other minority lawyer in American history
This judge basically did Trump’s lawyers’ work for them, making arguments under the 4-part Richey test which Trump did not brief or argue, making executive privilege arguments that Trump did not press fully in the hearing, and granting an injunction when one wasn’t requested https://t.co/qD0aWUiNys Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 5, 2022
Rangappa is a former FBI agent, senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She was previously an Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Now serving as a Senior Lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of Just Security.
