US District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order which appointed a “special master” to sort through the thousands of documents found at Mar a Lago –Trump’s home, was reversed today. The 11th US Circuit Count of Appeals’ three-judge panel, all originally appointed by Republican presidents, said Judge Cannon should never have intervened in the first place.
CNN quotes the court ruling:
“The law is clear,” the appeals court wrote. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
“The 11th Circuit said that either approach would be a “radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations” and that “both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.”