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Politics
Igor Derysh

Court: Trump judge "abused" discretion

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An appeals court on Wednesday said that Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon "abused" her discretion by barring the FBI from continuing its criminal investigation into classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago.

Three judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, including two that were appointed by former President Donald Trump, allowed the FBI to continue its criminal probe in 29-page opinion that legal experts said ran "through all of Cannon's errors" in the original ruling.

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