Late Friday, the Justice Department filed a limited appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order granting former president Donald Trump’s request for a special master to conduct a privilege review of documents seized by the FBI last month from his Mar-a-Lago estate, pursuant to a search warrant.
Specifically, the government’s appeal to the Eleventh Circuit, styled as a “motion for partial stay pending appeal,” narrowly challenges those parts of Judge Cannon’s rulings that (a) preclude investigators from using approximately 100 seized documents with classified markings in connection with DOJ’s criminal investigation of Trump; and (b) compel the government to submit those documents to the special master’s privilege review.
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