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disputes (cases such as disputes between states that are first heard at the
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the documents, as he has repeatedly claimed to justify their presence at Mar-a-Lago, despite Dearie's requests. Instead, Dearie declared that if the
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into trading them for files he thought would prove his claims that any
Russian interference during the election was a "hoax". On October 14, the DOJ filed a request with a federal appeals court to end the special master review, calling it "unwarranted" since " plaintiff has no plausible claim of
111:, the masters would have found that Johnson's 86-vote victory was delivered by hundreds of fraudulent ballots, but the investigation was halted by the US Supreme Court on the grounds that the Democratic Party, not the federal government, was responsible for its primary elections.
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are followed, or in the alternative, to hear evidence on behalf of the judge and make recommendations to the judge as to the disposition of a matter. The special master should not be confused with the traditional
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the trial itself. That is necessary as trials in the US almost always involve live testimony, and it would be too unwieldy for nine justices to rule on evidentiary objections in real time.
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Order did not contemplate that obligation," and extended the deadline for the files' review from
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