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Deepa Shivaram

Justice Dept. and Trump lawyers dispute how the Mar-A-Lago special master should work

In documents filed in court Friday, lawyers for former President Trump and the Department of Justice listed their preferred candidates for the role of special master. (Steve Helber/AP)

Lawyers for former President Trump and the Justice Department laid bare significant differences over who should serve as an independent special master to review materials collected during the Aug. 8 court-authorized search of Trump's Mar-A-Lago club that turned up highly classified documents.

They also split over how the special master should go about the work of identifying possible priveleged information to be returned to Trump.

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