In a stunning rebuke of Judge Aileen Cannon bizarre ruling granting Trump's request for a special master to vet the stolen classified documents seized at Mat-a-Lago the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled striking down the requirement to have the documents examined by a Special Master before releasing them to DOJ investigators.
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday reversed a judge's appointment of a special master to vet documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Justice Department in its challenge to a September ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
The 11th Circuit overturned Cannon's decision to grant Trump's request for a special master to vet the records to decide if some should be kept from investigators and to bar investigators from accessing most of the records pending the review.
"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant," the panel said. "Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so."