What took so long?
In May 2021, four months after the end of his presidency, the National Archives and Records Administration asked him to return materials that Trump had hauled to Mar-a-Lago, but which are owned by the public and administered by the US Government. Only in February 2022, after nine months of unsuccessful negotiation [sic] with Trump’s people, […]
What’s the big legal deal about executing a search warrant on a former president?
Jack Goldsmith, Deputy AG under George W. Bush, worries about Garland’s “using criminal process against former President Trump”. In support, he cites “sensible” commentators (George Will, Damon Linker, David Brooks) who believe that Garland “made a mistake, perhaps a disastrous one, in executing the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago”. In particular, he quotes Will’s concern with […]