{"id":543,"date":"2022-09-16T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:10:50","slug":"federal-judge-grants-trumps-special-master-request-rejects-dojs-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/federal-judge-grants-trumps-special-master-request-rejects-dojs-demands\/njackson\/2022\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Grants Trump’s Special Master Request, Rejects DOJ’s Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon officially appointed a special master to review the thousands of pages of materials seized by the FBI during its August raid<\/a> of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Cannon also rejected the Justice Department’s demand she permits federal investigators continue their own probe into the records marked classified, according to POLITICO<\/a>. In her ruling, Cannon rejected the DOJ’s claims that records they are trying to review as part of an ongoing criminal investigation remain highly classified or contain extraordinarily sensitive defense information that could damage national security if released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government\u2019s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion,\u201d Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote in her 10-page ruling denying the Justice Department\u2019s request to essentially exclude about 100 documents marked classified from the special master process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Judge Cannon selected Raymond Dearie a former federal judge in\u00a0New York, to lead the independent investigation. Earlier this week, Trump’s legal team named Dearie as one of its proposed judges to oversee the case. In a separate filing, the Justice Department also named Dearie as one of its pre-approved candidates. (Related:<\/strong> DOJ Signals Support for Trump-selected Special Master Candidate<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dearie is a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York who also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He was also among the FISA judges who signed an order approving electronic surveillance of\u00a0Carter Page, a former Trump aide, as part of the FBI\u2019s investigation into whether the 2016 Trump campaign\u00a0colluded\u00a0with\u00a0Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dearie accepted the role in a signed filing Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n