Judge appoints a Master to review Trump documents taken from Mar-a-Lago

 Washington Examiner:

A judge blocked federal prosecutors from continuing their criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of documents until a special master is appointed and has completed his or her work.

"The Court does not find that a temporary special master review under the present circumstances would cause undue delay" to the investigation, said U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, granting Trump's motion for a third-party review to look for privileged materials. She said the government is "temporarily enjoined from further review and use of any materials seized from" Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last month "for criminal investigative purposes" until the special master's review process is complete.

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Cannon, a Trump appointee, granted Trump's motion to appoint a special master "to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney client and/or executive privilege." Cannon ordered that the special master "review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendations thereon, and evaluate claims for return of property."

The judge noted the order does not stop the classification review and/or intelligence assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "The Government may continue to review and use the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessments." the judge said.

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This looks like a potential win for Trump to get back material wrongly taken in the raid.  There may be further litigation on the documents that Trump says he declassified. 

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