Federal appeals court to expedite case weighing legality of Mar-a-Lago special master
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Source: CNN Politics
CNN A federal appeals court has decided to expedite a case over the legality of having a special master oversee the review of a trove of federal records seized from Mar-a-Lago. A faster resolution to the Justice Departments appeal in this case could more quickly bring a resolution to the criminal investigation into the handling of former President Donald Trumps administration records after his presidency. The Justice Department already has access to more than 100 documents marked as classified that the FBI took from Trumps Florida estate. But thousands of other documents are being reviewed by a special master, and the DOJ is challenging that process.
In expediting the Justice Departments appeal, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals set a schedule that could make a decision by the end of next month possible. The appeals courts decision to expedite came one day after Trump turned to the Supreme Court for intervention in a narrower legal matter related to the special master review. The litigation at the Supreme Court will move parallel to the proceedings happening at 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, unless either court takes further action.
The case stems from a decision by a trial-level judge in South Florida, Aileen Cannon, who agreed last month to appoint a special master at Trumps request, following the search of his residence in August. That has tied up the Justice Departments access to evidence for weeks. The new order from the 11th Circuit, signed by Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan, set a deadline for the final written submission in the appeal for November 17 and said that no extensions would be allowed.
Having consulted with the Chief Judge, the appeal will be assigned to a special merits panel from the classified appeals log randomly selected by the Clerk, the order said, a move that means that it will be a different set of judges reviewing the appeal than the circuit court panel who sided with the Justice Department in earlier litigation over the documents marked as classified. The new panel will decide when and how to hear oral argument, the expedition order said. Trump had argued the case shouldnt be rushed, floating a schedule that would have dragged the appellate proceedings out until next year.
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A faster resolution to the Justice Departments appeal in this case could more quickly bring a resolution to the criminal investigation into the handling of former President Donald Trumps administration records after his presidency.
The Justice Department already has access to more than 100 documents marked as classified that the FBI took from Trumps Florida estate. But thousands of other documents are being reviewed by a special master, and the DOJ is challenging that process.
The decision to expedite came one day after Trump turned to the Supreme Court for intervention in a more narrow legal matter related to the special master review. The litigation at the Supreme Court will move parallel to the proceedings happening at 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, unless either court takes further action.
peppertree
(21,650 posts)No appeals, no special masters, no quibbling.
They'd lock you up and throw away the room.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)because the combination of stupid and vindictive aint exactly rare and money allows them to buy lawyers.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)illegally?
There's been not one word from he or his camp of traitors as to why tRUMP had these federal documents illegally.
And if the documents belong to the federal government, why in the hell is anyone else supposed to intervene, when the DOJ is simply getting its own documents back? It's like inviting the burglar's lawyers to look at everything he / she stole, to rule on the legality of that item(s) being there or something just as crazy.
Charge tRUMP w/ espionage, end the charade, the stupid game(s) that tRUMP is playing w/ our court system.
FredGarvin
(483 posts)The courts are just paying their tithings.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,423 posts)So I guess that the 60+ lawsuits he had filed during the 2020 election, or others had filed on his behalf didn't count?
Many of those lawsuits were dismissed by Benedict's appointed R. judges.
What about the Supreme Court refusing to take up any of the lawsuits during the 2020 election?
I guess those don't count either.
Or how about the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled against him a week or so ago?
Or the 11th just today approving an expedited hearing brought by the DoJ, of whom 6 are Benedict Donald's appointments?
I guess none of those count.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,487 posts)This makes me smile
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/appeals-court-expedites-doj-challenge-to-mar-a-lago-special-master-00060492
The Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday morning setting tighter deadlines in the governments appeal to remove what prosecutors contend is an unnecessary obstacle to their investigation into potentially illegal retention of classified information, theft of government records and obstruction of justice.
The schedule set by the appeals court for legal briefing on the issue is not quite as rapid as the Justice Department proposed, but is faster than Trumps legal team urged. Under the new schedule, Trumps lawyers would have to stake out their position in the dispute by Nov. 10 and briefing would be complete by Nov. 17.
No extensions allowed, Judge Adalberto Jordan wrote, indicating that he had consulted with Chief Judge William Pryor on the plan.
No date was set Wednesday for oral argument, but Adalbertos order said a special merits panel would be assigned to the case.
The legal fight over the documents found at Trumps Mar-a-Lago club in Florida has now proliferated into four arenas: the Florida courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who first approved the former presidents request for a special master; the Brooklyn courtroom of the special master she appointed, senior Judge Raymond Dearie; the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.