BREAKING: U.S. Dept. of Justice asks federal appeals court to temporarily block a Trump-appointed judge's ruling that prevents it from using thousands of pages of government documents seized from the former president's Mar-a-Lago home.
that a special master “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests.”
Dearie was one of two special master candidates proposed by Trump, and the only Trump suggestion that the Justice Department deemed acceptable. Trump's team rejected both of the department'ssignaled last week, ahead of Cannon’s order appointing the special master Thursday night, that it would appeal the judge’s ruling broadly.
The Justice Department's investigation grew out of a lengthy back-and-forth with the National Archives and Records Administration over boxes of government records that Trump held on to after he left office, even though the records were supposed to be turned over, under the Presidential Records Act. The National Archives called in the FBI after itwith some of the records Trump returned in January.
In response to a grand jury subpoena in May, Trump's team turned over some additional classified records and certified in a signed document in June that a"
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