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U.S. court allows Justice Dept to fast-track appeal in Trump case - Reuters

U.S. court allows Justice Dept to fast-track appeal in Trump case - Reuters

U.S. court allows Justice Dept to fast-track appeal in Trump case - Reuters
Oct 05, 2022 1 min, 22 secs

District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, who last month appointed Senior Judge Raymond Dearie as special master to review more than 11,000 records recovered from Mar-a-Lago to weed out any that could be privileged and should be shielded from investigators.

Trump is facing a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records - some marked as highly classified, including "top secret" - at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office, and for possible obstruction.

In its filing, the Justice Department said this prohibition was hampering its probe into the mishandling of records and possible obstruction, and that it needs to be able to examine non-classified records that may have been stored in close proximity to classified ones.

Last month, the Justice Department appealed another portion of Cannon's order which also blocked them from using approximately 100 seized records marked as classified for their criminal probe, and required prosecutors to make those classified materials available to Dearie for his review.

A panel of three judges, two of whom were appointed by Trump, sided with the Justice Department's request, finding that Cannon had erred by including those records in the special master review and precluding the Justice Department from accessing them for its probe.

Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court in an emergency request to overturn a portion of the 11th Circuit's ruling, saying the 100 records marked as classified should be part of the special master's review.

In the Justice Department's latest and broader appeal over the special master appointment before the 11th Circuit, a different three-judge panel will review the case.

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