What is the regular magistrate on vacation? I haven’t heard that. However it would make sense because they wanted Reinhart to be the judge as they knew that he was biased.
I am trying to verify the reason for the regular magistrate’s absence. The following article from the WSJ was posted on FR on 8-15-22. I have an email in to the author asking her for particulars and how she ruled out “deliberate timing by the feds”. The WSJ pushed the idea that Reinhart got the case “by chance”. Reinhart just “stepped in” to help. Yeah, sure. I wonder who suggested that to them...
“Posted on 8/15/2022, 1:13:47 PM by MaggieMay
Judge Who Approved Trump Search Warrant Was in Role by Chance - WSJ
“When the FBI submitted a search warrant seeking classified information in the Florida home of former President Donald Trump, the magistrate judge on duty in Palm Beach County was unavailable. So another magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, stepped in to handle the request, as is typical...”