Court battle begins over Trump’s special master review of papers | First Thing

Should the former president lose, the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago will be available for the criminal investigation. Plus, your daily update on the Qatar World Cup

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The justice department will ask a court today to void the special master review examining documents seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and make the materials available to the criminal investigation surrounding the former president.

What did justice department say in its briefing? Absent any likelihood of any success in the merits of the claim, there is no justification for an injunction," the department wrote, as it sought the appeals court to reverse the entirety of the Trump-appointed US district court judge Aileen Cannon's special master order.

What do we know about the victims? Among the victims were two bartenders, a trans woman, a mother to an 11-year-old and a young graduate.

The Colorado Springs shooter had allegedly threatened his mother with a bomb. Why could he still get a gun? There's no public record that prosecutors sought any felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado's red flag law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons. Questions are being asked about why.