Former President Trump informed the Department of Justice that he intends to sue them over the Mar-a-Lago search. MSNBC's Lisa Rubin joins Ana Cabrera to break down the legal analysis and to explain what's next.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and the Supreme Court have already helped Donald Trump in his criminal cases. Now he's using them to support his request for civil damages too. A lawyer for the former president is citing Cannon and the justices in a filing that serves as a precursor to a possible federal lawsuit stemming from the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property and subsequent charges for alleged unlawful retention of national defense information and obstruction.
But that ruling didn’t deal with the underlying merits of the prosecution or the court-approved search that Trump complains of in his civil filing. There’s also the fact that it’s a trial-level ruling currently on appeal. Even if it survives appeal, it’s still difficult to see how Cannon’s decision on Smith’s appointment and funding calls into question the Mar-a-Lago search, which predated Smith’s appointment.
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