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The Counsel

Note from Elie: Nobody Wins with the Special Master

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Thumbtack presents the ins and outs of caring for your home.

0:05.0

Out.

0:06.0

Procrastination, putting it off, kicking the can down the road.

0:11.0

In.

0:12.0

Plans and guides that make it easy to get home projects done.

0:16.0

Out. Carpet in the bathroom.

0:19.0

Like, why. In. Knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire.

0:27.0

Start caring for your home with confidence. Download Thumbtack today.

0:34.9

Hey everyone, happy Friday, Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community.

0:39.5

As always, please send me any thoughts, questions boxing or mixed martial

1:13.2

arts, the law often is a zero-sum game. Almost by definition, one side's gain is the other's

1:19.7

loss. Yet somehow, the special master's review of documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago

1:25.6

has become a lose-lose scenario. It's going dreadfully

1:30.2

for Donald Trump, who fought to have a special master appointed in the first place, then got his own

1:34.9

guy named to the role and now is paying for it financially and tactically. But it's also been a

1:40.0

drag for Justice Department prosecutors as valuable time ticks away while they struggle just to get

1:45.5

their heads back above water. Trump and his legal team won the first round, it seemed, when Judge

1:50.8

Eileen Cannon granted their initial request over DOJ's furious objection to appoint a special

1:56.2

master to review the Moro Lago documents. Trump's wins seemed twofold. He'd have an outsider who could put a check on DOJ's ability to make unilateral determinations

2:05.0

about attorney-client and executive privileges.

2:07.9

And he'd generally muck up and slow down the entire review process.

2:12.0

Looking back at Trump's legal history, he hasn't actually won often in the courts,

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