The initial request, cast in starkly political terms, was filed earlier this week, but a federal judge asked that Trump’s lawyers more clearly state their case for making such a request.
Trump’s lawyers described the government’s search, which resulted in the seizure of 11 sets of classified documents, as overly broad because it authorized FBI agents to seize "boxes of documents merely because they are physically found together with other items purportedly within the scope of the warrant."
In Georgia, meanwhile, the Atlanta-area district attorney leading a separate criminal inquiry into interference in the 2020 election has summoned Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows to appear before a special grand jury.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis described Meadows as a “material witness” to possible election-related fraud. Prosecutors referred to Meadows’ alleged role in arranging a Jan. 2, 2021 telephone call in which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to tilt the Georgia election in his favor.
– Kevin Johnson
Biden said he had ‘zero’ advance notice of the Mar-a-Lago search
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