One of Trump's nominees for special master has been agreed to by the DOJ.
Reagan appointed a former NY district judge to play the role.
DOJ lawyers said he didn't have enough experience.
The Department of Justice has approved one of Donald Trump's candidates to be the special master and sift through the thousands of White House documents.
Raymond Dearie, a former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, will be allowed by the Department of Justice to act as a special master.
The approval of Dearie by the Department of Justice marks a rare agreement in the legal battle between the two parties.
Ronald Reagan nominated Dearie to serve on the US District court. He was appointed by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to a 7-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, where he oversaw requests by federal investigators for warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents.
One of the five judges who signed off on the warrants to surveil Carter Page was a judge named Dearie. Two of the four approved warrants were declared invalid after the Inspector General found a number of misstatements and omissions in the applications by the FBI.
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice appealed a federal judge's decision to appoint a special master to review specific classified files.
Three former judges and a former counsel to the Governor of Florida were on the list of proposed candidates submitted by the parties by the end of last week. The DOJ didn't think he had the experience needed.
The DOJ's request for access to classified records was denied by Trump's team.
The special master would have to have the highest national security clearance in the US in order to be appointed.
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