A federal judge said she intends to grant Donald Trump’s request for a so-called special master to review documents seized by the FBI from the former president’s home and seek out any privileged material.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, issued the order on Saturday and scheduled a hearing on the matter for Sept. 1 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Cannon said the preliminary order is warranted by the “exceptional circumstances” of the case.
The order comes less than 24 hours after a magistrate judge in the same court unsealed a redacted version of the FBI affidavit that was used to get the search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Federal agents investigating missing White House records left with 20 boxes of documents, including 11 sets of classified material.
