The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court late Friday to allow prosecutors to resume examining the roughly 100 classified documents recovered in last month’s extraordinary search of the home of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and prohibits a special master from reviewing it. they.
The department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta that a judge’s order temporarily barring prosecutors from reviewing documents marked classified “impedes the government’s efforts to protect the nation’s security” and hamper his ongoing investigation into government records in the former president’s extension. resource