A Florida judge has appointed a special master who will help determine the fate of a Department of Justice probe into documents that former President Donald Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The DOJ's request for at least 100 classified documents to be turned directly over to investigators instead of the special master was denied by Judge Cannon.
According to the filings, the review process will have to be finished by the end of November.
Raymond Dearie is a former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Cannon said that it was not appropriate for the court to accept the government's conclusions without further review by a neutral third party.
The special master will have until November 30 to complete the review of documents that Trump could try to claim executive or attorney-client privilege over.
The Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University told Insider that Trump's team most likely will try to claim executive privilege over any documents that they believe would compromise confidential White House communications. Donald Trump's claim to a continuing need for secrecy is difficult to prove, as executive privilege protects the right of the president to receive candid advice without fear of disclosure.
Trump's case and the appointment of a special master made national security experts worried.
The only candidate the two teams could agree on was Dearie. According to experts, the selection and review process for a special master could take months.
The DOJ's actions are political, according to Trump.
The goal of the special master's review is to determine if any of the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
It's not clear if Dearie needs the highest level of national security clearance for the review.
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