The Washington Post PoliticsTrade adviser Peter Navarro speaks outside the White House on Thursday. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
By Spencer S. Hsu
The Justice Department has abandoned an effort to recover up to hundreds of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s emails from President Donald Trump’s first term, messages that a federal judge had ruled were presidential records that belonged with the National Archives.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Wednesday granted the joint request to dismiss the three-year-old case, begun under the Biden administration, one day after it was filed by the Justice Department’s civil division and Navarro’s lawyers. No explanation for the reversal was given in the one-page filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.
A lawyer for Navarro and a Justice Department spokesman
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