The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to end an independent arbiter's review of documents seized from Donald Trump's home and private club in South Florida.
In a 53-page brief filed with the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Justice Department challenged a decision that blocked federal investigators from reviewing thousands of records and appointed an outside arbiter to sift through the materials to determine if any are potentially relevant to the case.
The FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the home and private club of former President Donald Trump. The former president's request was granted by Cannon last month.
The appeals court granted the partial stay after the DOJ appealed the ruling.
The Justice Department said that the court had already granted the government's motion to stay the order. The order should be reversed in its entirety for a number of reasons.
The lawyers for the government argued that the records seized from Mar-a-Lago were government documents and therefore the property of the United States.
Trump isn't entitled to the return of evidence solely because it was seized from him, prosecutors said.
Evidence rooms would be emptied if that were the case. It said that by the time a district judge granted Trump's request for a special master in September, the government had already looked at the seized materials.
Special-master review is unwarranted because Trump didn't demonstrate that the standard filter-team process is inadequate to protect his attorney-client communications.
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