As expected, former president Donald Trump’s lawyers have filed a court submission opposing the Justice Department’s request that Judge Aileen Cannon exclude documents marked classified from her ruling last Monday granting Trump’s request for a special master.
The special master, a court-appointed independent lawyer, would review the approximately 13,000 documents and other items seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI on August 8. Of these, a small subset — about 100 documents — bear classification markings. No special master has been appointed yet, though the parties have advised Judge Cannon that one of Trump’s proposed candidates is mutually acceptable: retired judge Raymond Dearie, formerly of the federal court for the Eastern District of New York (headquartered in Brooklyn and with jurisdiction over Trump’s native Queens).
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