FBI Mar-a-Lago Warrant Had ‘No Legal Basis’: Constitutional Lawyers

FBI Mar-a-Lago Warrant Had ‘No Legal Basis’: Constitutional Lawyers
Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in N.Y. on Aug. 9, 2022, the day after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach home, in Fla. David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters
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Two constitutional lawyers who worked in the Bush and Reagan administrations say that the warrant used to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence had no legal basis.

A former president’s right under the Presidential Records Act supersedes the statutes the Department of Justice and FBI used to carry out the raid earlier this month, wrote David Rivkin Jr. and Lee Casey, who both served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

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