Justice department faces deadline for detailed inventory of files while ex-president’s team must argue for review by special master
Good morning, US politics blog readers, if we can tear you away from the touch-and-go Nasa rocket launch (where US vice-president Kamala Harris is due to speak later today) for a moment, it’s going to be another big week in US politics.
Here’s what’s coming up:
The Department of Justice is under deadline to present a more detailed inventory of what was seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club resort and residence during the search by the FBI for hoarded government secrets on 8 August.
And Trump’s legal team also has a deadline as they prepare for a hearing before a judge in Florida to explain why the former president believes a so-called special master is needed to supervise a review of that FBI search.
Joe Biden will return from Delaware to the White House this morning, before readying for a trip to Pennsylvania to talk up gun control, after another weekend of deadly shootings in the US.
Republican campaign spending is rocketing in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, ahead of the midterm elections and as Democrats are doing better to dig themselves out of the hole of grim prospects this November.
Kamala Harris is at the Kennedy Space Center for thee planned Nasa moonshot rocket launch, you can follow our live coverage here. Why not toggle between that blog and this as the morning unfolds?