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Jonathan H. Adler

Eleventh Circuit Grants Stay of Trial Court Order Blocking Access to Mar-a-Lago Documents

This afternoon the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted the Department of Justice's request for a partial stay of the lower court order that had temporarily blocked the Department from analyzing and investigating documents seized from former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago.

The 29-page per curiam opinion on behalf of Judges Rosenbaum, Grant, and Brasher  thoroughly rejects the bases upon which Judge Cannon had granted Trump's request to block Justice Department access and to appoint a special master. (For those who care about such things, two of the judges were appointed by Trump, and one was appointed by Obama.)

The opinion begins:

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