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DOJ appeals 'special master' order for Mar-a-Lago case documents
• https://nypost.com By Steven NelsonThe department filed a notice of appeal Thursday after receiving unexpected rhetorical cover earlier this week from Trump's former attorney general, Bill Barr.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Monday that an independent third party should review documents taken by agents Aug. 8 from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which the authorities say included official secrets.
Biden administration lawyers asked Cannon to pause her ruling as the appeal is considered by the Atlanta-based US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
The documents in question "indisputably belong to the government, not Plaintiff," the Justice Department said.
Trump argues some of those records are shielded by executive privilege, attorney-client privilege or other legal protections.
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1 Comments in Response to DOJ appeals 'special master' order for Mar-a-Lago case documents
This is good. There are a couple of reasons why: 1) Maybe Trump will be President again by the time they get done working all this over; 2) Remember how OJ Simpson got off the first time? He went free because there wasn't any chain of proof that the evidence wasn't tampered with. In other words, the evidence against OJ was stored in such a way that some outside person could have contaminated it. If we get enough people handling the Trump docs, sooner or later they're going to leave some docs lying around without a chain of proof as to who handled the docs. The question will be, are these really the Trump docs?