Judge Signals Intent to Appoint Special Master in Mar-a-Lago Search
A federal judge in Florida gave notice Saturday of her “preliminary intent” to appoint an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to conduct a review of the highly sensitive documents that were seized by the FBI this month during a search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
But Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, set a hearing for arguments in the matter for Thursday in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach — not the one in Fort Pierce, Florida, where she typically works. Trump’s lawyers had initially asked Cannon on Monday to appoint a special master, but their filing was so confusing and full of bluster that the judge requested clarifications on several basic legal questions. The notice by Cannon on Saturday was seen as something of a victory in Trump’s circle.
Special masters are not uncommon in criminal investigations that include the seizure by the government of disputed materials that could be protected by attorney-client privilege. A special master was appointed, for example, after the FBI raided the office of Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen in 2018 and took away evidence that Cohen and Trump claimed should have been kept from investigators because of the nature of their professional relationship.
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