A special master was selected Thursday to review the records confiscated during the FBI’s raid of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence.
Senior judge Raymond Dearie, a Brooklyn-based federal judge, was tapped after Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida granted Trump’s petition for an independent court-chosen arbiter to sift through the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Cannon also rejected the Justice Department's request for permission to restart its criminal probe into the retrieved contents. The DOJ had appealed Cannon’s last ruling allowing the appointment of the special master and pausing the use of the seized materials for the investigation. If the government pushes further, the dispute could escalate to an appeals court and subsequently the Supreme Court.
Dearie must complete the review of the potentially privileged documents by November 30, after the midterm elections, when the GOP is expected to recover control of at least one chamber of Congress.
In his motion for a special master filed in late August, Trump argued that a third-party screening of the documents is necessary because the sudden search of his home so close to midterms “involved political calculations aimed at diminishing the leading voice in the Republican Party, President Trump.”
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