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Judge Strips DOJ Access to Mar-a-Lago Documents, Hands It All to a Reagan Appointee Instead

by Western Journal
September 16, 2022 at 10:56 am
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Eric Trump Gives Inside Look at What the FBI Outrageously Did During Raid: It’s Worse Than You Think

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 10: Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is seen on February 10, 2021 in Palm Beach, Florida. Palm Beach Town council announced there was nothing specifically that prohibited Mr. Trump from using the property as his residence after questions had been raised by others in the town if he could live there. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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A federal judge on Thursday appointed a special master to review documents seized in the federal raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

In naming retired Judge Raymond Dearie, who had been proposed by the Trump team for the task, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon also said the Justice Department must not access what it says are classified records confiscated in last month’s raid.

Dearie, appointed to the federal bench by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1986, was the only one of four names proposed by either Trump or the Justice Department on which the two sides could agree. He fully retired from the U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York late last month, according to The Hill.

Trump must pay the costs of the special master, whose review is due by Nov. 30.

In her decision, the judge rejected an argument from the Biden administration’s Justice Department that it should be able to review about 100 documents it has said are classified and ban the special master from seeing them.

Cannon was nominated by Trump to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in May 2020.

A special master has been appointed and Biden’s appeal has FAILED! HUGE TRUMP VICTORY!! The FBI can’t operate in the shadows ANY LONGER!! We’ll soon find out just how CORRUPT this whole WITCH HUNT really is!!

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) September 16, 2022

In her ruling, the judge noted that the Justice Department wanted everything its way.

“If the court were willing to accept the government’s representations that select portions of the seized materials are — without exception — government property not subject to any privileges, and did not think a special master would serve a meaningful purpose, the court would have denied plaintiff’s special master request,” Cannon wrote. In this case, Trump is the plaintiff.

She wrote that “evenhanded procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice.”

The Justice Department has claimed about 100 records were classified. Noting that this is an area of dispute, Cannon said those records must be reviewed by Dearie with all the rest.

“In many respects, the Government’s position thus presupposes the content, designation, and associated interests in materials under its control — yet, as the parties’ competing filings reveal, there are disputes as to the proper designation of the seized materials, the legal implications flowing from those designations, and the intersecting bodies of law permeating those designations,” the judge wrote.

Cannon said the government cannot use the documents in question in any investigation related to Trump.

She wrote that she “does not find the Government’s argument sufficiently convincing as presented. First, there has been no actual suggestion by the Government of any identifiable emergency or imminent disclosure of classified information arising from Plaintiff’s allegedly unlawful retention of the seized property.”

“Instead, and unfortunately, the unwarranted disclosures that float in the background have been leaks to the media after the underlying seizure,” the judge wrote.

Her bottom line: “The court does not find it appropriate to accept the government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion.”

The Justice Department is planning to appeal the decision, The New York Times reported, citing a senior law enforcement official who was not named.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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