Appeals court orders end to special master review process in Trump documents case
  • el año pasado
Washington – A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Atlanta ruled that the special master review process that oversaw the Justice Department's use of non-classified evidence collected earlier this year at Donald Trump's Florida residence must end. The unanimous decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed the decision of Judge Aileen Cannon, a federal judge from Florida who granted Trump's request for the review and appointed semi-retired federal Judge Raymond Dearie of New York as an independent arbiter, or special master, to sift through the documents for any that may be subject to claims of privilege by the former president.  That decision also barred investigators from using the roughly 13,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's resort, during the execution of a search warrant on Aug. 8 for investigative purposes. A separate appeals court decision from September permitted the Justice Department to use more than 100 documents with classified marki
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