Donald Trump doesn't want the US Justice Department's challenge to the appointment of a special master to review thousands of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate to be heard by a federal appeals court.
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Lawyers for the former president objected to the Justice Department's request for the appeal to be expedited. They need time to go over the 11,000 documents to see if they are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege. The government had more time to review the documents than Trump's team did.
They said there was no good reason for President Trump to have less time than the government to prepare and brief his arguments.
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals was asked to set an expedited schedule to hear the government's appeal of the special master order, which temporarily bars them from using most of the 11,000 seized documents in the criminal investigation into whether government records were mishandled.
The DOJ is seeking an expedited appeal of the special master ruling.
The court was asked by the Justice Department to set a date for arguments after the conclusion of the briefings. The government could not vindicate the public interest in proceeding quickly with the criminal and national security investigation if it continued to block investigators from using the seized materials.
Roughly 100 documents with classified markings were carved out by the appeals court.
The Justice Department was criticized in a footnote.
According to the filing, President Trump disagrees with and objects to the government's presentation of facts regarding the unprecedented raid of his home, its conduct in these proceedings, and the procedural history of this case.
There is a case in the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
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