The Department of Justice strongly objected to the appointment of a special master last week, arguing that Trump should not be subject to executive privilege.
is part of the current executive branch. In addition to being unnecessary, the DOJ argued that a special master could impede its ongoing investigation.
Here, pages from the government’s released version of the FBI search warrant affidavit for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8. On Monday, a federal judge granted Trump's bid for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI.Delaying the DOJ Investigation The ruling will likely delay the DOJ's probe into Trump's mishandling of classified documents, as the decision prohibits criminal investigators from reviewing the seized materials until the special master's review is complete.Cannon disagreed with the DOJ's position that executive privilege did not apply to Trump, a former president under investigation by a current executive branch. She wrote that the DOJ's filing"arguably overstates the law.
The judge said in her decision,"Even if any assertion of executive privilege by plaintiff ultimately fails in this context, that possibility, even if likely, does not negate a former president's ability to raise the privilege as an initial matter. Accordingly, because the privilege review team did not screen for material potentially subject to executive privilege, further review is required for that additional purpose.
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