In both cases, former President Donald J. Trump is claiming a novel power to keep White House information from his time in office secret from the Justice Department.
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Judge Overrules Special Master’s Demands to Trump in Document Review
The dueling moves by Judge Aileen M. Cannon and a special master she appointed reflected a larger struggle over who should control the rules of the review — and whom those rules would favor.
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Trump’s Demand for Special Master Is Looking Like a Mistake
The former president failed to derail the criminal investigation into his hoarding of sensitive documents and is stuck paying for a costly process that threatens to undermine his public claims.
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Trump Claims He Declassified Documents, but His Lawyers Don’t
Judges this week highlighted the gap between Mr. Trump’s public claims that he declassified everything and his lawyers’ reluctance to repeat that claim in a courtroom.
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Appeals Court Restores Justice Dept.’s Access to Sensitive Files Seized From Trump
A federal judge had temporarily barred the department from using the records marked as classified in its inquiry into whether the former president illegally retained national defense documents.