![]() The Justice Department had said a special master was unnecessary in part because it had already completed its own review of the seized documents, locating a limited subset that possibly involve attorney-client privilege. In granting the request for a special master, Cannon directed the department to temporarily pause its use of the seized records for investigative purposes. Roughly 11,000 documents - including more than 100 with classified markings, some at the top-secret level - were recovered during the FBI’s Aug. That’s not surprising given that the Justice Department had strenuously objected to the Trump team’s desire for such an arbiter, and gave notice Thursday that it would appeal the judge’s decision to grant the ex-president’s request.Ĭentral to the dispute is precisely what documents the yet-to-be-named special master should be tasked with reviewing. Though both sides met Cannon’s deadline to provide potential candidates, their filings made clear that they have core disagreements about the job of special master. 17 deadline for the special master to complete the review process, while the Trump team said the work could take as long as three months. Though the legal wrangling is unlikely to have major long-term effects on the investigation or knock it significantly off course, it will almost certainly delay the probe by potentially months and has already caused the intelligence community to temporarily pause a separate risk assessment. The back-and-forth over the special master is playing out amid an FBI investigation into the retention of several hundred classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago within the past year. The Trump team proposed one retired judge, Raymond Dearie - also the former top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York - and a prominent Florida lawyer, Paul Huck, Jr. The Justice Department submitted the names of two retired judges - Barbara Jones, who served on the federal bench in Manhattan and has performed the same role in prior high-profile investigations, and Thomas Griffith, a former federal appeals court jurist in the District of Columbia.
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