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This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice, and partially redacted by the source, shows documents seized during the Aug. 8 FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Politics & Government

Trump and his lawyers keep ghosts of Nixon and Watergate alive and haunting

5:01am September 25, 2022

by Ron Elving

When it mattered most, Nixon and his crew found that people who might have been political allies in the past were not especially sympathetic to his case.

A courtroom sketch of Judge Raymond Dearie in New York in January 2013.

Politics & Government

What to know about Judge Raymond Dearie, the Mar-a-Lago search special master

5:00am September 16, 2022

by Jasper Ruppert

Dearie, 78, a former chief judge of the federal court in the Eastern District of New York, was one of the special master candidates suggested by Trump whom the Justice Department did not object to.

Pages from a court filing by former President Donald Trump's lawyers is photographed Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.

Justice Department says it is open to one of Trump's picks for Mar-a-Lago arbiter

2:39am September 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Justice Department said Monday that it was willing to accept one of Donald Trump's picks for an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last month.

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, pictured in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2018.

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Trump and the Justice Department have submitted picks for a special master. Now what?

7:43pm September 12, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The sides disagree on whether there should be a special master at all, and how the document review actually should work. Former U.S. attorney Chuck Rosenberg discusses their possible considerations.

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Law enforcement officers stand outside of the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 18.

What a special master does, as told by a special master

12:44pm September 02, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Donald Trump has asked for an independent review of materials seized from Mar-a-Lago. A special master tells NPR that the primary qualification is remaining neutral, which isn't easy.

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Judges OK Expert Changes To North Carolina Statehouse Districts

4:15pm January 19, 2018

by Associated Press

Federal judges have approved North Carolina legislative districts redrawn by an expert they hired to address their concerns about continued racial bias with some boundaries and new constitutional v