Appeals court strikes down special master in Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/01/trump-cannon-special-master-rejected/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2FSJ-KVcVRswEGpaWTsGSv2VtE3sNA-eTVPwpjPPRL5rkOJ9SkNO3n5yg


A federal appeals court panel on Thursday halted an outside review of thousands of documents seized from former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence, ruling that a lower-court judge was wrong to appoint an expert to decide whether any of the material should be shielded from criminal investigators.

Trump sought the outside arbiter, known as a special master, after the FBI executed a court-approved search of Mar-a-Lago, his home and private club, on Aug. 8, retrieving more than 13,000 documents related to Trump’s time in the White House. About 100 of the documents were classified, and some contained extremely sensitive government secrets, according to court records.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon of Florida agreed to appoint Judge Raymond J. Dearie of Brooklyn as special master to review the documents, rejecting the Justice Department’s argument that presidents do not retain executive privileges after leaving office. Cannon also noted that the FBI took some of Trump’s personal materials that were mixed with the government documents.

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1. So, Judge Loose Cannon managed a four-month stall...?

And, of course, I assume this will be appealed to SCOTUS for yet another delay.

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2. Judge Loose Cannon will forever be remembered as the partisan hack

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