Trump Wins Bid for ‘Special Master’ for Mar-a-Lago Records (4)

Sept. 5, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

A federal judge granted Donald Trump’s request for a neutral third party to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and temporarily barred the government from using the trove to develop its criminal investigation into the former president.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, said in a Monday ruling that the government could continue to access the documents -- many of them bearing the nation’s highest classification markings -- for the limited purposes of conducting a national-security review that’s already underway.

“The investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest ...

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