Court Appears Ready to End Special Master Review in Trump Files Inquiry
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Source: New York Times
A federal appeals court panel signaled on Tuesday that it is likely to end a review of a trove of government documents seized this summer from former President Donald J. Trump, a move that would greatly free up an investigation into his handling of the material.
At a 40-minute hearing in Atlanta, the three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit seemed to embrace the Justice Departments position that a federal judge had acted improperly two months ago when she ordered an independent arbiter to review the documents taken from Mr. Trumps Florida compound, Mar-a- Lago.
Through their questions, the panel expressed concern that Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who appointed the so-called special master, had acted without precedent by ordering a review of the seized material. The panel also suggested that Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, had overstepped by inserting herself into the case and trying to bar the government from using the records in its investigation into whether Mr. Trump had illegally kept national security records at Mar-a-Lago and obstructed the governments repeated efforts to retrieve them.
The hearing on Tuesday was the latest development in the protracted legal fight over Mr. Trumps handling of nearly 13,000 government documents and photographs, including some that were marked as highly classified. It came days after the Justice Department appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to oversee both the documents investigation and a separate inquiry into Mr. Trumps effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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grumpyduck
(6,198 posts)Bingo.
agingdem
(7,756 posts)she's advising Trump's clown car lawyers what to file and when..
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)hadEnuf
(2,150 posts)She's just another planted Trump traitor....
MissMillie
(38,454 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(9,888 posts)JudyM
(29,122 posts)The forum hosts consensus is that this is analysis, discussing what was signaled, rather than decisive news. Good for GD.