A federal judge granted Donald Trump’s request for a neutral third party to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and temporarily barred the government from using the trove to develop its criminal investigation into the former president.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, said in a Monday ruling that the government could continue to access the documents — many of them bearing the nation’s highest classification markings — for the limited purposes of conducting a national security review that’s already underway.
“The investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public, and the country is served best by an orderly process that promotes the interest and perception of fairness,” Cannon said in her ruling.
