A federal appeals court has acted to shut down an outside review of the Justice Department's use of nearly 3,000 documents the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in August.
A panel of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a district court judge erred both by granting Trump's request to block investigators' access to the records and in her decision to appoint a special master to assess Trump's claims that some of the documents could be protected by executive privilege or other legal doctrines.
The ruling represents another major setback for the former president and a clear victory for the Justice Department. Prosecutors had been using those records as part of a criminal investigation into alleged retention of national security information, theft of government records and obstruction of justice.
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