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The Eleventh Circuit on Sept. 21, 2022, granted the Justice Department a partial stay, letting investigators use the roughly 100 documents with classification markings seized from Mar-a-Lago while the special-master review continued for the rest.
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An Eleventh Circuit panel on September 21 let the Justice Department resume reviewing the classified-marked records seized from Mar-a-Lago and cut back the special master’s role on those files. The ruling did not end the larger dispute, but it did take away Trump’s best shot at freezing review of the documents most central to the criminal probe.
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An Eleventh Circuit panel on September 21 let the Justice Department resume reviewing the classified-marked records seized from Mar-a-Lago and cut back the special master’s role on those files. The ruling did not end the larger dispute, but it did take away Trump’s best shot at freezing review of the documents most central to the criminal probe.
The Eleventh Circuit on Sept. 21, 2022, granted the Justice Department a partial stay, letting investigators use the roughly 100 documents with classification markings seized from Mar-a-Lago while the special-master review continued for the rest.
A federal appeals court on September 21, 2022, allowed the Justice Department to resume reviewing classified-marked records seized from Mar-a-Lago while the special-master dispute continued. The order was limited: it did not decide the case’s bigger questions about privilege, ownership, or the rest of the special-master process.
On Sept. 21, 2022, the 11th Circuit granted the Justice Department a partial stay in the Mar-a-Lago records fight, letting investigators resume using the classified materials in the criminal probe and pausing special-master review of that subset.
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