Earlier this month, Cannon ruled that the government had to stop its criminal investigation into the former president until a special master could review all the documents in the case for privilege issues. The ruling covers a small portion of the thousands of documents seized during last month’s search of the former president’s private club and residence in Florida. The three-judge panel was comprised of two Trump appointees, Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher, and an Obama appointee, Robin Rosenbaum. The 11th Circuit opinion was on a Justice Department request to lift part of Cannon’s ruling while it appeals. “An injunction delaying (or perhaps preventing) the United States’s criminal investigation from using classified materials risks imposing real and significant harm on the United States and the public,” the ruling said. The panel found it “self-evident” that the public interest favored a government investigation into the national security risks from the documents found in the search. And the opinion concludes Cannon - who Trump appointed to the job - likely had abused her discretion. The ruling succinctly cuts down some claims from the former president, particularly a suggestion he had any personal interest in classified documents or that he had declassified them as president. District Judge Aileen Cannon likely erred when she ordered that the DOJ could not continue its criminal probe of Trump using the 100 or so classified documents found in the search. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found U.S. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. A federal appellate court on Wednesday allowed the Justice Department to use classified documents seized in the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club last month, reversing a lower court judge who sided with the former president.
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