DOJ appeals decision to order special master to review evidence seized in Mar-a-Lago
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DOJ says it’s halted intelligence review.
The Justice Department is appealing a court-ordered special master review of the materials seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, it said Thursday.
The Justice Department is also asking US District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointee who ordered the special master, to pause part of her order, originally delivered on Labor Day, with the prosecutors saying the government has halted the intelligence community’s review of classified documents.
The Justice Department had vigorously opposed the appointment of a special master, which is a third-party attorney tasked with reviewing evidence and filtering out privileged documents. The department argued to Cannon the independent review wasn’t necessary, given the internal DOJ filter practices that had been used in the search.
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