Justice Department accepts Trump pick for special master

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Washington Examiner

Prosecutors said they accepted Raymond Dearie, a senior U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York, according to a court filing on Monday. Dearie and DOJ picks Barbara Jones and Thomas Griffith “each have substantial judicial experience” that makes them viable candidates for special master, the document said.

 

Dearie, Jones, and Griffith all have presided over federal criminal and civil cases, with Dearie continuing to serve as a federal judge in New York. Further, Dearie is known to be a former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge linked to warrants against onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Jones is a former U.S district judge for New York, and Griffith served as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Trump’s second pick, Paul Huck Jr., is a former partner of Jones Day law firm and contributor to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. Huck was “respectfully opposed” by the government for not having similar experiences as his fellow candidates.

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Trump's Choice for Mar-a-Lago Raid Special Master May Be Brilliant…or Disastrous

As an added sideshow to the FBI’s “unprecedented and misguided” election season raid of former President Donald Trump, there’s the drama surrounding the candidates who might win the job of pawing through all of the confiscated documents.

 

Both the government and Trump’s lawyers, who are arguing over possessions taken from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home on Aug. 8, announced nominees for the special master to go through Trump’s things.

One candidate, in particular, is causing plenty of pucker for those who support the former president.

One of Trump’s two candidates is Raymond Dearie, a retired federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.

Dearie was on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which makes him qualified to deal with classified documents — if indeed any were found at Trump’s Florida home, an argument renewed by his lawyers in a filing on Monday. He was the presiding judge over the FIFA scandal brought into the United States.

But Dearie comes with baggage. Big baggage.

Dearie was the judge who approved a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.