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U.S.|U.S. Asks Court to End Special Master Review of Files Seized From Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/us/appeal-special-master-trump.html
The Justice Department told an appeals tribunal that a national justice was incorrect to intervene successful its probe into the erstwhile president’s hoarding of delicate records.
Oct. 14, 2022, 5:14 p.m. ET
The Justice Department asked an appeals tribunal connected Friday to extremity a peculiar maestro reappraisal of thousands of documents that the F.B.I. seized from erstwhile President Donald J. Trump’s Florida estate, arguing that a national justice had been incorrect to intervene successful its probe into Mr. Trump’s hoarding of delicate authorities records.
In a 53-page brief earlier the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, successful Atlanta, the Justice Department broadly challenged the ineligible legitimacy of orders past period by Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who blocked investigators from utilizing the materials and appointed an autarkic arbiter to sift them for immoderate that are perchance privileged oregon Mr. Trump’s idiosyncratic property.
The Justice Department already succeeded successful persuading a sheet of the Atlanta-based tribunal to exempt astir 100 documents marked classified from Judge Cannon’s determination — a determination the Supreme Court declined to overturn this week. In its caller filing, the Justice Department asked the appeals tribunal to reverse her bid for the remaining 11,000 oregon truthful documents.
“This tribunal has already granted the government’s question to enactment that unprecedented bid insofar arsenic it relates to the documents bearing classification markings,” the filing said. “The tribunal should present reverse the bid successful its entirety for aggregate autarkic reasons.”
A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Christopher M. Kise, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The Trump ineligible squad is owed to record a little successful effect to the government’s entreaty adjacent month.
The quality is the opening circular successful the main portion of the Justice Department’s entreaty of the orders by Judge Cannon, whom Mr. Trump appointed successful November 2020, arsenic portion of a suit Mr. Trump filed aft the F.B.I. carried retired a court-ordered hunt of his Florida nine and residence, Mar-a-Lago, successful August.
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