WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to expedite its review of an order appointing a special master to scrutinize documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Putting the appeal on a fast track could make the special master’s work — which has just begun and is set to unfold over the next two months — “unnecessary,” government lawyers wrote in a filing late Friday.
The Justice Department proposed a briefing schedule that would finish by Nov. 11, and asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hold arguments soon after that. Trump opposed the move, according to the government’s brief.
