The new date is Sep 15, 2022, at 7:59pm.
A federal judge turned down the Department of Justice's request to allow prosecutors to view classified documents while Raymond Dearie conducts a review of them.
The Mar-a-Lago resort is owned by former President Donald Trump.
Dearie was appointed by the judge after the DOJ said he was a good choice.
Cannon was asked to exclude about 100 classified records from an earlier order barring prosecutors from using any of the seized Mar-A-Lago records.
The court shouldn't grant the DOJ's request because the government can't say if all the documents marked as classified actually were, according to Trump's attorneys.
Cannon wrote that she didn't think it was appropriate to accept the Government's conclusions without further review by a neutral third party.
The judge, whom Trump appointed, ordered Dearie to review all the documents seized and filter out materials that are potentially covered by either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, with classified materials being prioritized, and said that Trump's attorneys will review the documents and log which ones Trump claims are
Cannon ordered Dearie to finish by November 30 despite the DOJ's request for the review to end by October 17 and the judge's order that Trump pay the full cost of the review.
The Justice Department will appeal the order if Cannon does not grant the request. The court has a majority of Trump-appointed judges, so it is not certain how they will rule. The DOJ's investigation into the seized Mar-A-Lago documents could take months or years to be resolved in court.
Two weeks after the FBI searched Mar-A-Lago, Trump asked Cannon to appoint a special master to look into the matter. The ex-president is accused of obstructing the investigation by keeping the documents at Mar-A-Lago even after he was ordered to turn them over. Legal experts don't think he could have declassified the documents without following the proper procedures. Cannon ruled on September 5 that a special master should be appointed despite the DOJ arguing it would be unnecessary and delay its investigation because some of Trump's personal belongings were also seized. Legal experts called her legal reasoning to the New York Times "deeply problematic," "radical" and "laughably bad."
The DOJ wants the court to stop the special master from reviewing the classified documents.
The DOJ wants to block the special master from seeing classified documents.
The judge gave the special master to review the documents.
All Rights Reserved © 2024
