Timeline: The legal battle over the 11,000 documents found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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Washington — The months-long campaign by the National Archives and Records Administration to recover records that former President Donald Trump brought with him from the White House to his South Florida residence at the end of his presidency has given way to a legal showdown between the former president and Justice Department over the documents.
Trump made the opening move in the court fight in late August, when he filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Florida two weeks after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Palm Beach. Agents took 33 items containing roughly 11,000 documents, approximately 100 of which were marked classified, according to a detailed inventory made public by the Justice Department.
Since then, an outside arbiter known as a special master has been appointed to vet the materials taken by federal investigators from Mar-a-Lago, and the Justice Department has prevailed — for now — in its effort to regain access to the subset of 100 sensitive materials after the district court stopped it from using for investigative purposes.
