Reuters reports:
A senior federal judge with experience handling U.S. national security matters was named on Thursday as an independent arbiter to vet records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in an ongoing criminal investigation.
Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, based in Brooklyn, was appointed by Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to serve in a role called a special master in the case.
Dearie, 78, is tasked with deciding whether any of the documents are privileged – either due to attorney-client confidentiality or through a legal principle called executive privilege – and should be off limits to federal investigators.
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Breaking: Federal judge rejects DOJ’s bid to revive its criminal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, setting the stage for department’s dispute with former President Trump to move quickly to an appeals court and potentially the US Supreme Court.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 15, 2022
I have absolutely no idea how the Special Master is supposed to do the work of reviewing the documents with classification markings. I can’t fathom the 11th Circuit letting this stand. https://t.co/SferEe0Arn
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 15, 2022