The Department of Justice has asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a Trump-appointed judge’s order barring the use of non-classified documents seized during a search of Mr Trump’s home in an ongoing criminal probe into the ex-president.
In a legal brief filed with the court late on Friday, prosecutors called Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to name a special master to review documents seized in the 8 August search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago property as “an unprecedented order by the district court restricting an ongoing criminal investigation by prohibiting the Executive Branch from reviewing and using evidence ... recovered in a court-authorized search”.
