The Justice Department can continue using classified documents seized from Trump's home in its probe, an appeals court ruled
WASHINGTON—An appeals court late Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to retain control of the classified materials seized at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and continue its criminal investigation into the handling of those documents, in a big win for the government.
In a 29-page decision, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta lifted an earlier order from a federal judge who had barred federal agents from using roughly 100 classified documents seized as part of its probe into whether any national-security risks had been posed by the way the highly sensitive government material was being held at Mr. Trump’s Florida home.
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