- The Justice Department requested that the court speed up its appeal against the special master’s appointment.
- Prosecutors stated in Friday’s filing that they were being hindered by the criminal investigation.
- This filing was made one day after Trump’s lawyers requested that a judge slow down the special master review.
The Department of Justice seeks to expedite its appeal of Mar-a-Lago’s court decision to appoint the special master to review the documents.
In a new FilingFriday’s statement by the Justice Department stated that the special-master review was preventing it from achieving its goals Criminal investigationIn the handling of the documents.
After an earlier court decision, federal prosecutors had only been allowed to access seized documents that had classification markings while the special-master review unfolds. However, the prosecutors stated that they needed to examine the thousands of documents that were seized in order to conduct their investigation. Even though they aren’t posing the same security threats as classified documents,
The Justice Department motion said reviewing the unclassified materials could help them figure out how the classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago, among other factors.
Former President Donald Trump asked for a Extraordinary masterAfter the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home on August 8, and seized it, he was appointed There are more than 100 classified docuements. Judge Aileen Clinton Cannon granted the request and appointed a special master as suggested by Trump’s legal team.
Cannon Thursday GrantTrump’s lawyers requested that the review be slowed down after they claimed the schedule of the special master was too slow and they Could not find any outside vendors to help with this review.. Cannon extends its expiration date from November 30th to December 16th
In its motion on Friday, the Justice Department requested the legal briefings in the special-master appeal be sped up to conclude in mid-November. If the government grants its request, Appeal, a decision that will not be made by Cannon, the special-master review could abruptly end.
