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NEW: An appeals court granted DOJ’s bid to expedite its challenge to the appointment of a #SpecialMaster to review documents seized from Trump’s estate. DOJ argued speed was of the essence in its Trump criminal probe. Story w/ @ZoeTillman bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics
The order Wednesday from the federal appeals court in Atlanta didn’t specify when it would hear arguments—or which judges would hear the case—but set a briefing schedule that wraps up on Nov. 17. Trump had argued against expediting the case & suggested oral arguments in January.
The appeals court previously rejected Trump's attempt to keep the DOJ from accessing about 100 documents bearing classification markings—some of them labeled top secret—that were seized from his home. DOJ argued the documents were crucial to to the criminal investigation
ICYMI: A group of former prosecutors who served in GOP administrations told the 11th Circuit on Friday that Judge Cannon's #specialmaster ruling had given Trump special treatment. The group urged the court to let DOJ continue using seized classified records in its criminal probe
"A former President is entitled to no greater protection under the law than is any other citizen..[C]oncern for reputational harm is not a valid basis for enjoining a criminal investigation, especially one that is inexorably intertwined with a national security damage assessment"
The assessment was included in a proposed amicus brief by a half dozen former federal prosecutors and former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who argue that Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, is "affording greater protection to the plaintiff because he is a former president"
Former President Trump and the #DOJ have each submitted 2 candidates to serve as an independent #SpecialMaster to review documents the #FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Learn about the 4 candidates👇 theepochtimes.com/judge-set-to-h…
Learn about the 4 candidates👇 theepochtimes.com/judge-set-to-h…
The first of Trump’s choices is Raymond J. Dearie, who began his federal judicial service in 1986, the year he was nominated by then-President Ronald Regan and confirmed by the Senate to be a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Trump’s second pick is Paul Huck Jr., who is the founder of the Huck Law firm and former partner at the multinational law firm Jones Day, according to the court filing.
Previously, Huck served as Florida deputy attorney general from 2003 to 2007.
Previously, Huck served as Florida deputy attorney general from 2003 to 2007.
