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Trump lawyers and justice department to file list of special master candidates

A police officer outside the Paul G Rogers Federal Courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A police officer outside the Paul G Rogers Federal Courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

The US justice department and the legal team of Donald Trump were due on Friday to jointly file a list of possible candidates to serve as a “special master” to review the records seized by the FBI from the former president’s home.

US district judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee in Florida, granted Trump’s request for a special master earlier in the week. Her order temporarily bars prosecutors from reviewing the seized records as part of their criminal investigation.

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