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A federal appeals court sped up the government’s challenge in the classified-documents fight, undercutting Trump’s bid to slow-roll the case and keep the special master process in place.
On October 5, 2022, Donald Trump got a fresh reminder that the Mar-a-Lago documents case was not drifting in his favor. A federal appeals court approved the Justice Department’s request to fast-track its appeal over the special master order, setting the case on a faster track and signaling that the government’s challenge would not be bogged down by Trump’s preferred pace. The move came after Trump had sought emergency intervention from the Supreme Court to preserve special master review of materials marked classified. The immediate effect was simple: the courts were treating the government’s objection as urgent, while Trump’s effort to compartmentalize the documents was losing altitude. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/05/special-master-mar-a-lago-appeals-court?utm_source=openai))
For Trump, the day’s headline was not victory but acceleration: the machinery of the courts moved faster, not slower, toward the documents he wanted kept in limbo. That is rarely a good sign when the underlying fight is over classified records pulled from your home.
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The 11th Circuit agreed to expedite the Justice Department’s appeal in the special master dispute, a procedural win for prosecutors and a setback for Trump’s effort to slow the case down.