The Department of Justice is appealing the court's decision to appoint a special master to review the documents.
The special-master review is making it harder for the Justice Department to investigate the handling of the documents.
Federal prosecutors were only allowed to look at seized documents with classification markings while the special-master review was going on. Even if they don't pose the same national security concerns as those that were classified, prosecutors need to review the thousands of other documents that have been recovered.
The unclassified materials could be used to figure out how the classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and seized more than a hundred classified documents. A special master was appointed by the judge.
Cannon granted Trump's lawyers' request to slow the review process after they said the special master's schedule was too fast and they couldn't find outside vendors to help with the review. The end date was extended from November 30 toDecember 16.
The legal briefings in the special-master appeal should be finished in mid-November. The special-master review could come to an abrupt end if the government is granted its appeal.
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