Appeals court sides with DOJ, overrules judge, allows full access to docs seized during Mar-a-Lago raid
September 22, 2022 | Chris Donaldson
A federal appeals court has sided with the Biden Justice Department by authorizing the government to continue its criminal investigation against former President Donald. J. Trump by allowing it to regain access to documents seized by the FBI during the storming of Mar-a-Lago last month.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta overruled federal Judge Aileen Cannon who blocked the feds from using around 100 documents that were marked as classified when she approved the appointment of a special master to review the material confiscated from Trump’s residence.
“For our part, we cannot discern why Plaintiff would have an individual interest in or need for any of the one-hundred documents with classification markings,” the panel wrote in its 29-page ruling. They are “owned by, produced by or for, or . . . under the control of the United States Government.”
“Plaintiff has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents. And even if he had, that, in and of itself, would not explain why Plaintiff has an individual interest in the classified documents,” the ruling reads.
Appeals Court Judges Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher are Trump nominees while Judge Robin Rosenbaum was nominated by Barack Obama.
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