BREAKING: Court Halts Trump-Requested Special Master Review of Seized Mar-a-Lago Documents
No more special master
DOJ gets all the documents
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing the special master to look through the 11,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, in order to determine what documents should not be handed over to investigators. Trump’s legal team had requested the special master, which was approved by a Trump-appointed judge in a widely panned ruling many legal observers did not expect to stand.
“The law is clear,” the appeals court wrote. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
DOJ gets all the documents
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing the special master to look through the 11,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, in order to determine what documents should not be handed over to investigators. Trump’s legal team had requested the special master, which was approved by a Trump-appointed judge in a widely panned ruling many legal observers did not expect to stand.
“The law is clear,” the appeals court wrote. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
