But CREW and its partners argued that because the presidential visitor records are typically maintained by the Secret Service — which is part of the Department of Homeland Security — they should not be exempt from public release. In July Judge Katherine Polk Failla of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered the Trump administration to release the “records of presidential visitors at Mar-a-Lago” by September. “The government does not believe that they need to release any further Mar-a-Lago visitor records. Instead, Mr. Blanton said he expected on Friday to get copies of hundreds of Secret Service emails that listed the names of presidential visitors to Mar-a-Lago, which, once assembled, would represent as comprehensive a list as possible. Mr. Trump visited Mar-a-Lago 25 times between his inauguration and the middle of May, when the club closes for the summer.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2017 18:28 UTC