Battle over whether Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran must relinquish testimony, notes, and other documents heads to a higher court
to the federal bench, and Childs was on the president’s shortlist of potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court opening created by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. The third judge on the panel, Cornelia T.L. Pillard, was nominated by President Barack Obama.If the panel rules against Trump’s appeal, it’s possible Trump will seek to carry the fight up to the Supreme Court, though it’s not clear he would have a much better chance of success there.
The fight for Corcoran’s evidence highlights the degree to which prosecutors are trying to gather all of the available evidence about conversations among Trump and his advisers after they received a subpoena in May of last year seeking all documents with classified markings.Special Counsel Jack Smithcase, said there is evidence of a deliberate effort to not turn over all the material covered by the subpoena, according to people familiar with the matter.
The classified-documents investigation is one of several criminal probes focused on Trump. Smith is also overseeing a
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