Outside review of documents seized at Mar a Lago officially ends

[pnwmom]

Last edited Thu Dec 8, 2022, 10:00 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CBS news

Washington — The outside review of documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida resort will officially come to a close, as a ruling from a federal appeals court panel ordering its end took effect Thursday without an appeal from Trump.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously ruled last week that a federal district court judge erred when she appointed an outside arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 13,000 records retrieved by the FBI when it executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. The former president, who requested the special master's appointment, brought the documents with him from the White House to his South Florida property at the end of his presidency, and federal prosecutors have revealed in court filings that roughly 100 of those records were marked classified.

Justice Department Iinvestigators were also barred from using the unclassified materials for their its investigation into Trump's handling of sensitive government records and whether there was possible obstruction of that probe. But the 11th Circuit's decision lifted the injunction put in place by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in September, giving investigators access to the tranche of unclassified documents taken by the FBI.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said the former president will "continue to fight against weaponization of law enforcement and pursue appropriate legal avenues to obtain the items that were brazenly and illegally seized from his home during the Biden regime's unconstitutional raid."



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-documents-seized-at-mar-a-lago-outside-review-ends-special-master/

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I'm surprised he didn't appeal. I think an appeal would have been doomed to failure, but that kind of thing has never stopped him before.

[iluvtennis]

1. Good news. FBI et al can proceed with full investigation into the docs. n/t

[former9thward]

9. What "full investigation"?

They had the documents before the Special Master was appointed. They know what they are and what is in them and where they came from.

[iluvtennis]

10. FBI et al only had access to the 100+ classified documents, but not the 11,000+ unclassified docs.

With this ruling FBI et al now has access to the 11,000+ unclassified docs. It's my understanding they needed to have access to all of the docs - classified and unclassified - to do the full investigation.

Appeals Court Lets the FBI Resume Work on the Mar-a-Lago Document Trove

On Sep 8th: FBI et al given access to classified docs
On Dec 8th: FBI et all given access to unclassified docs

[Justice matters.]

2. Loser furhair lost $3 million paid up front for nothing.

That's a lot of dough for just a 3-month delay...

May be too costly to keep losing, and losing, and losing

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. tRump is clever with other people's money: RNC paying lawyers. . . . nt

[Lasher]

7. But the RNC can't do that anymore, now that TFG has announced his candidacy for President in 2024.

Maybe that is why he chose not to pursue a frivolous SCOTUS appeal this time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Good point. . . . nt

[republianmushroom]

3. good

[RussBLib]

4. Very un-T****like to not appeal

Wonder why not? Maybe he's finally giving up? Unlikely.

[SunSeeker]

5. Money, probably. Good appellate lawyers want money up front from him now.

The last one wanted $3M. And the appeal would have been relatively quickly resolved, as this one was in 3 months, so it would not buy him much time, at least not enough time to make it worth paying millions.