DOJ Seeks Expedited Appeal of Trump’s Special Master Ruling

  • Government wants 11th Circuit to lift limits on document use
  • Trump’s legal team opposes the faster appeal schedule
Police at former US President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 9.Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg
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The US Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to expedite its review of an order appointing a special master to scrutinize documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Putting the appeal on a fast track could make the special master’s work -- which has just begun and is set to unfold over the next two months -- “unnecessary,” government lawyers wrote in a filing late Friday.