Trump is hoping the court he helped stock with conservatives can help prevent the Justice Department from reviewing confidential material seized by the FBI.
barring the DOJ from reviewing a trove of classified documents Trump allegedly retained unlawfully after his departure from the presidency.
Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon last month appointed a “special master” to review the seized documents for any privilege issues, but the 11th Circuit Court ruled that the Justice Department could proceed with its review of about 100 of those documents. Trump’s legal team is arguing that the 11th Circuit Court didn’t have the power to do this, and that all of the seized documents should first be reviewed by the special master.
The appointment of Judge Raymond Dearie as special master came at a cost to Trump’s litigation strategy. On his first day adjudicating the role, Dearieon the former president’s public claims that he had managed to declassify the documents before leaving office.
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