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Justice Department says expert witness should not have been authorized to review Mar-a-Lago documents

MADRID, 15 Oct.

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Justice Department says expert witness should not have been authorized to review Mar-a-Lago documents

MADRID, 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United States Department of Justice has defended this Friday that the authorization for a special independent expert to review the documents taken during the raid on former President Donald Trump's mansion in Mar-a-Lago "should never have occurred."

The Justice portfolio has called on the 11th Court of Appeals in Atlanta to reverse the decision of federal district judge Aileen Cannon to appoint an expert to review 13,000 files seized on the Florida property by the FBI during her appeal before the court, according to the 'Los Angeles Times'.

The representative of Justice argued in his presentation that Cannon should not have even considered appointing a special expert because Trump did not meet the requirement to do so, that is, that the government had shown a "callous disregard" for his rights when executing the authorized search. by the court. Although the magistrate based her decision on the fact that the former president did meet the rest of the requirements.

The court has agreed to accelerate the consideration of the case and has granted the Republican politician's lawyers until November 10 as a deadline to present their response in this regard.

In the filing, the Department has asserted that the seized documents are "the very objects" of an "ongoing criminal investigation, so the court should reverse the district court's injunction and terminate the special expert's review." ".

The appeals court has already granted the department's request to withhold nearly 100 classified documents from the special master's review and overturned Cannon's order that prevented the department from using those records as part of its investigation during the review, according to the same. medium.

The Supreme Court of the United States rejected last Thursday Trump's request to intervene in the dispute over the appropriateness of having an independent expert analyze the seized documents. The rejection of his claim was significant since this court has a conservative majority (6-3) and is made up of up to three judges that he himself appointed.