JUST IN: A federal appeals court overturns a judge’s order appointing a special master to review documents seized from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
A federal appeals court overturned a judge's decision to appoint a special watchdog to review documents seized by the FBI from the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump in August as part of a criminal investigation.
"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant," judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said in the ruling. A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge's decision to appoint a special watchdog to review documents seized by the FBI from the Florida residence of former President"This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation," a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit wrote in its ruling.
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