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Armed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Fast start: New special master in Trump documents case orders Tuesday hearing

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This is an aerial view of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. The National Archives and Records Administration recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from a initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. That's according to newly public correspondence with the Trump legal team. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Senior judge named as special master to review documents seized in Mar-a-Lago raid

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about a counterterrorism raid carried out by U.S. special forces that killed top Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in northwestern Syria, Feb. 3, 2022, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Biden and top national security officials have cited the recent strike killing al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri as evidence that America maintains an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan after the withdrawal. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Biden accused of pressuring FBI to fabricate ‘extremist’ and ‘White supremacist’ cases

By Kerry Picket and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump riot outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Justice Department expands Jan. 6 inquiry, fearing GOP midterm takeover of Congress

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, complied with DOJ subpoena in Jan 6 probe: Report

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2019 photo, mourners visit the makeshift memorial near the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting that police are investigating as a terrorist attack targeting Latinos. White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a report issued, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, by a group that fights anti-semitism. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

FBI insiders say White supremacy threat overblown as Biden opens summit about racists, extremists

By Kerry Picket and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

This is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. The discovery of hundreds of classified records at Donald Trump's home has thrust U.S. intelligence agencies into a familiar and uncomfortable role as the foil of a former president who demanded they support his agenda and at times accused officers of treason. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Justice Department to accept Trump’s pick for special master

By Victor Morton and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Trump attorneys argue seized documents were not classified and Mar-a-Lago is secure

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A microphone stands at the entrance to the House SCIF, the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, located three levels beneath the Capitol where witnesses and lawmakers hold closed interviews in the impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, in Washington, Nov. 15, 2019. When members of Congress want to peruse classified materials, they descend deep into the basement of the Capitol to a sensitive compartmented information facility, known as a SCIF. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Not Mar-a-Lago: Congress’ secrets in sealed rooms, lock bags

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

In this file photo, Alabama Rep. Neil Rafferty speaks in support of transgender rights during a rally outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., March 30, 2021. Eagle Forum of Alabama, a conservative grassroots advocacy group, is challenging a Justice Department subpoena seeking documents and communications about its lobbying efforts in support of an Alabama law banning gender transitioning treatment for youth. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

Conservative group fights DOJ over subpoena of its records related to youth gender transition ban

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This photo shows an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The Justice Department says classified documents were "likely concealed and removed" from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the discovery of the government records. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Trump, Justice Department propose special master candidates

By Eric Tucker and Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen in Palm Beach, Fla., April 18, 2018. The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s decision to name an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Justice Department to appeal special master ruling in Trump raid

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE - An election worker examines a ballot at the Clackamas County Elections office on Thursday, May 19, 2022, in Oregon City, Ore. On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security in swing state Wisconsin were urged to prepare for supply chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to “I voted” stickers for years to come. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus,File)

Wisconsin man charged with felony election fraud, identity theft

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event Friday, July 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. A pro-Democratic super PAC is accusing the Federal Election Commission of allowing Trump “to continue violating the law&quot; by dragging its feet over a complaint concerning Trump's teasing of a future White House bid. American Bridge on Wednesday, July 20, filed a lawsuit asking that a judge compel the commission to take action on its pending complaint that accuses Trump of violating federal campaign laws by raising and spending money for a run without officially filing his candidacy. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Trump’s attorneys say DOJ can’t be trusted with seized documents, will ‘impugn,’ ‘leak’ materials

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House claims Biden never briefed on FBI’s Trump raid or anything about the investigation

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Justice Department Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AG Garland bans DOJ employees from talking to Congress amid flood of whistleblower complaints

By Kerry Picket and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate earlier this year contained documents with classification markings, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday, Aug. 26, explaining the justification for the search of the property this month. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Trump ‘concealed and removed’ documents in violation of grand jury subpoena, Justice Department says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The Justice Department says it has uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified records at the former president's Florida estate. (Department of Justice via AP) ** FILE **

Feds cite efforts to ‘obstruct’ probe of docs at Trump home

By Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, is among the leaders of a nore signed by nine current and incoming House Republicans saying Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, hasn't done enough to earn their vote for speaker on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Rep. Jordan demands answers from DOJ watchdog on seizure of Rep. Perry’s cellphone

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday banned political appointees at the Justice Department from participating in political campaign events, changing a longtime policy at an agency under intense political scrutiny and fending off allegations of partisanship. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Garland restricts Justice Department appointees’ political activities amid GOP criticism

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times