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Attorney General Merrick Garland employed an unexpected and unorthodox legal chess move to present former President Donald Trump with a put up or shut up moment.
After three days of withering criticism from Trump, outrage from Republicans and fevered speculation about why, exactly, the FBI searched Trump’s Florida home, Garland asked a federal court in South Florida to unseal the search warrant. Read the full story.
What comes next
Of course, Trump, whose lawyers
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