JUST IN: The Justice Dept. will appeal a judge's decision to appoint a special master to review documents seized from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a new court filing.
Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The hundreds of pages of classified government records seized from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last month aren't the former president's"personal records," and he has no right to possess them, the Justice Department said in a court filing Thursday as it said the government would appeal a judge's ruling on the matter.
The Justice Department will appeal U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling for a special master to look at the documents seized during the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, according to the notification Thursday. The Justice Department said it will file its appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit."the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined."
Parts of Cannon's ruling — specifically those enjoining the government from doing anything with the classified records it seized — would"cause the most immediate and serious harms to the government and the public." The government also wrote, in an eyebrow-raising line, that the injunction could"impede efforts to identify the existence of any additional classified records that are not being properly stored.
"The classified records are government property over which the Executive Branch has control and in which Plaintiff has no cognizable property interest," the Justice Department wrote.Cannon, a 41-year-old Trump appointee who was confirmed to the Southern District of Florida at the tail-end of the Trump administration,
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