A federal appeals court granted the Justice Department's request to expedite its challenge to a Florida judge's appointment of a special master to review thousands of White House documents.
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The order from the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals didn't specify when judges would hear arguments or which judges would hear the case, but it did give a brief schedule.
The appeal will be assigned to a special merits panel randomly selected by the clerk after consultation with the chief judge. The panel will make a decision on when and how to hear the argument.
The case should be put on an expedited track so that it can be heard in January. The government wanted to give Trump six more days to file, but his lawyers wanted less time. The brief is due next month.
The appeals court rejected Trump's attempt to keep the Justice Department from seeing some of the 100 documents that were seized from his home. The DOJ believes the documents are important to its investigation into Trump's handling of White documents.
There are documents that include pardons, emails, and legal bills.
US District Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, a semi-retired Brooklyn-based judge, is the special master overseeing a review of 11,000 documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
The judge presiding over the document fight extended the time for Dearie's work into December.
Cannon temporarily bars most of the seized documents from being used.
There is a case in the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
The details from the appeals dispute have been updated.
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