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Over the weekend, vice-president Kamala Harris continued to push Democrats’ message that the upcoming midterm elections were about far more than just which party controls Congress, as Ed Pilkington reports:
Kamala Harris warned on Sunday that the midterm elections in November would determine whether the “age-old sanctity” of the right to vote would be protected in the US or whether “so-called extremist leaders around the country” would continue to restrict access to the ballot box.
The filings amounted to a forceful response against the decision by the judge – a Trump appointee – to give unusually deferential treatment to Trump on account of his status as a former president.
The justice department focused on the classified documents in its motion to stay the order barring it from reviewing the seized materials, arguing that Trump did not have “possessory interest” for the records – the key legal standard at issue – and were themselves the subject of the investigation.
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