Judge authorizes special master for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid documents

A national justice on Monday authorized the assignment of a peculiar master to reappraisal records seized from President Donald Trump's Florida residence by the FBI successful a raid past month.

Judge Aileen Cannon astatine the aforesaid clip temporarily blocked the Department of Justice from reviewing oregon utilizing the seized worldly for investigative purposes, until the peculiar master's reappraisal of the documents is completed, oregon until a further tribunal order.

That autarkic 3rd enactment volition analyse "the seized spot for idiosyncratic items and documents and perchance privileged worldly taxable to claims of attorney-client and/or enforcement privilege," Cannon wrote successful an bid issued successful U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Cannon said her bid would not impede an ongoing reappraisal of classified documents recovered astatine Trump's residence and the appraisal of immoderate perchance harm connected U.S. quality by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Trump had asked for a peculiar maestro to beryllium appointed weeks aft the Aug. 8 raid of his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, which recovered much than 10,000 authorities documents, a fig of which were highly classified.

The Department of Justice had opposed the assignment of that watchdog, arguing that Trump had nary close to person the records, and that a peculiar maestro reappraisal would hold its ongoing transgression investigation.

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