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Appeals court rules against Trump in documents fight
Updated On: 03 December, 2022 09:11 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Reverses appointment of independent arbiter, overturns district judge’s decision to bar investigators from accessing most records pending review
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The three-judge 11th Circuit panel said the U.S. District lacked the authority to grant Trump’s request for a special master made in a lawsuit after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago estate. Pic/AP
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to Donald Trump, reversing a judge’s appointment of an independent arbiter to vet documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and allowing all of the records to be used in a criminal investigation of the former president.
The Atlanta-based 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favour of the Justice Department in its challenge to Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s September decision to name a “special master” to review the records to decide if some should be kept from investigators.
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