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Trump probe: Court halts special master review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago

Trump probe: Court halts special master review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago
MORE ON THE STORY COMING UP. ATTORNEYS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ARE NOW ASKING A FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE IN FLORIDA TO DEMAND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAND OVER AN UNREDACTED VERSION OF AN AFFIDAVIT USED TO JUSTIFY THE SEARCH OF MAR A LAGO. THEY ARGUE TRUMP HAS A RIGHT TO THE FULL AFFIDAVIT IN ORD
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Trump probe: Court halts special master review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago
Video above: Trump team files motion requesting unredacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavitA unanimous federal appeals court on Thursday ended an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention of top-secret government information.The decision by the three-judge panel represents a significant win for federal prosecutors, clearing the way for them to use as part of their investigation the entire tranche of documents seized during an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. It also amounts to a sharp repudiation of arguments by Trump's lawyers, who for months had said that the former president was entitled to have a so-called 바카라 게임 웹사이트special master바카라 게임 웹사이트 conduct a neutral review of the thousands of documents taken from the property.The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had been expected given the skeptical questions the judges directed at a Trump lawyer during arguments last week, and because two of the three judges on the panel had already ruled in favor of the Justice Department in an earlier dispute over the special master.The decision was a unanimous opinion from the three-judge panel of Republican appointees, including two who were selected by Trump. In it, the court rejected each argument by Trump and his attorneys for why a special master was necessary, including his claims that the seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.바카라 게임 웹사이트It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president 바카라 게임 웹사이트 but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the judges wrote.The special master litigation has played out alongside an ongoing investigation examining the potential criminal mishandling of national defense information as well as efforts to possibly obstruct that probe. Attorney General Merrick Garland last month appointed Jack Smith, a veteran public corruption prosecutor, to serve as special counsel overseeing that investigation.It remains unclear how much longer the investigation will last, or who, if anyone, might be charged. But the probe has shown signs of intensifying, with investigators questioning multiple Trump associates about the documents and granting one key ally immunity to ensure his testimony before a federal grand jury. And the appeals court decision is likely to speed the investigation along by cutting short the outside review of the records.The conflict over the special master began just weeks after the FBI바카라 게임 웹사이트s search, when Trump sued in federal court in Florida seeking the appointment of an independent arbiter to review the roughly 13,000 documents the Justice Department says were taken from the home.A federal judge, Aileen Cannon, granted the Trump team바카라 게임 웹사이트s request, naming veteran Brooklyn judge Raymond Dearie to serve as special master and tasking him with reviewing the seized records and filtering out from the criminal investigation any documents that might be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.She also barred the Justice Department from using in its criminal investigation any of the seized records, including the roughly 100 with classification markings, until Dearie completed his work.The Justice Department objected to the appointment, saying it was an unnecessary hindrance to its criminal investigation and saying Trump had no credible basis to invoke either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege to shield the records from investigators.It sought, as a first step, to regain access to the classified documents. A federal appeals panel sided with prosecutors in September, permitting the Justice Department to resume its review of the documents with classification markings. Two of the judges on that panel 바카라 게임 웹사이트 Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant, both Trump appointees 바카라 게임 웹사이트 were part of Thursday's ruling as well.The department also pressed for unfettered access to the much larger trove of unclassified documents, saying such records could contain important evidence for their investigation.In its ruling Thursday, the court directed Cannon to dismiss the lawsuit that gave rise to Dearie's appointment and suggested Trump had no legal basis to challenge the search in the first place.바카라 게임 웹사이트The law is clear. 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,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the judges wrote.바카라 게임 웹사이트Either approach,바카라 게임 웹사이트 they added, 바카라 게임 웹사이트would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts바카라 게임 웹사이트 involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.바카라 게임 웹사이트

Video above: Trump team files motion requesting unredacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit

A unanimous federal appeals court on Thursday ended an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention of top-secret government information.

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The decision by the three-judge panel represents a significant win for federal prosecutors, clearing the way for them to use as part of their investigation the entire tranche of documents seized during an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. It also amounts to a sharp repudiation of arguments by Trump's lawyers, who for months had said that the former president was entitled to have a so-called 바카라 게임 웹사이트special master바카라 게임 웹사이트 conduct a neutral review of the thousands of documents taken from the property.

The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had been expected given the skeptical questions the judges directed at a Trump lawyer during arguments last week, and because two of the three judges on the panel had already ruled in favor of the Justice Department in an earlier dispute over the special master.

The decision was a unanimous opinion from the three-judge panel of Republican appointees, including two who were selected by Trump. In it, the court rejected each argument by Trump and his attorneys for why a special master was necessary, including his claims that the seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

바카라 게임 웹사이트It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president 바카라 게임 웹사이트 but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the judges wrote.

The special master litigation has played out alongside an ongoing investigation examining the potential criminal mishandling of national defense information as well as efforts to possibly obstruct that probe. Attorney General Merrick Garland , a veteran public corruption prosecutor, to serve as special counsel overseeing that investigation.

It remains unclear how much longer the investigation will last, or who, if anyone, might be charged. But the probe has shown signs of intensifying, with investigators questioning multiple Trump associates about the documents and granting one key ally immunity to ensure his testimony before a federal grand jury. And the appeals court decision is likely to speed the investigation along by cutting short the outside review of the records.

The conflict over the special master began just weeks after the FBI바카라 게임 웹사이트s search, when Trump sued in federal court in Florida seeking the appointment of an independent arbiter to review the roughly 13,000 documents the Justice Department says were taken from the home.

A federal judge, Aileen Cannon, granted the Trump team바카라 게임 웹사이트s request, naming veteran Brooklyn judge Raymond Dearie to serve as special master and tasking him with reviewing the seized records and filtering out from the criminal investigation any documents that might be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.

She also barred the Justice Department from using in its criminal investigation any of the seized records, including the roughly 100 with classification markings, until Dearie completed his work.

The Justice Department objected to the appointment, saying it was an unnecessary hindrance to its criminal investigation and saying Trump had no credible basis to invoke either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege to shield the records from investigators.

It sought, as a first step, to regain access to the classified documents. A federal appeals panel sided with prosecutors in September, permitting the Justice Department to resume its review of the documents with classification markings. Two of the judges on that panel 바카라 게임 웹사이트 Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant, both Trump appointees 바카라 게임 웹사이트 were part of Thursday's ruling as well.

The department also pressed for unfettered access to the much larger trove of unclassified documents, saying such records could contain important evidence for their investigation.

In its ruling Thursday, the court directed Cannon to dismiss the lawsuit that gave rise to Dearie's appointment and suggested Trump had no legal basis to challenge the search in the first place.

바카라 게임 웹사이트The law is clear. 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,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the judges wrote.

바카라 게임 웹사이트Either approach,바카라 게임 웹사이트 they added, 바카라 게임 웹사이트would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts바카라 게임 웹사이트 involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.바카라 게임 웹사이트