
A federal appeals court appears likely to shut down the special master review of secret government documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, sided with the former president to appoint a special master to comb through the documents for potentially privileged information, selecting longtime federal Judge Raymond Dearie from a list proposed by Trump's attorneys. Legal experts have repeatedly questioned Cannon's intervention in the case, especially after she overruled Dearie on key issues as he pressed Trump's attorneys to provide evidence backing their arguments.