
On Monday morning, August 12, the news broke that former President Donald Trump is planning to sue the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for $100 million for the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago in 2022. FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago that year looking for classified government documents that Trump, according to special counsel Jack Smith, had no business keeping after completing his presidency and leaving the White House in January 2021. Smith brought federal charges against Trump in 2023, but in July, Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee assigned to the...