Justice Department moves to dismiss appeal in classified-docs case against co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira

Story · January 30, 2025

Justice Department moves to dismiss appeal in classified-docs case against co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trump’s Day of Government-by-Court-Order

Procedural end Confidence 5/5

Correction: Correction: The Justice Department moved on Jan. 29, 2025, to dismiss its appeal in the classified-documents case against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira; the Eleventh Circuit later granted that request, formally ending the appeal.

The Justice Department on Jan. 29, 2025, filed a motion to dismiss its appeal in the classified-documents case involving Donald Trump’s co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. The filing came after Trump’s return to the White House and sought to end the government’s remaining appellate effort in the case.

That Jan. 29 motion did not itself close the matter. The appeal ended only after the Eleventh Circuit granted the government’s request, which formally terminated the appellate proceedings against Nauta and De Oliveira.

Nauta and De Oliveira had been charged with Trump in the federal case over the handling of classified material at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s own prosecution in the case had already been knocked off the criminal docket after a judge dismissed the indictment in July 2024, and the government’s appellate posture shifted once the administration changed.

The result for the two co-defendants was procedural, not merits-based. The dismissal of the appeal left no live federal appellate case against Nauta and De Oliveira in the classified-documents matter.

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