Judge Boasberg orders Trump defendants to preserve Signal chat group messages

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Judge James Boasberg ordered five of President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet members on Thursday to save their Signal messages from March 11 to March 15 as part of a lawsuit alleging they violated federal records laws.

A Department of Justice attorney assured Boabserg they were already preserving the records and were agreeable to his order but added the “caveat” that the Cabinet members might be unable to recover some of the messages from the encrypted messaging app, which has an auto-delete option.

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