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As readers will know by now, DoJ has appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop Judge Cannon (at the District Court level) from appointing a special master to review the materials seized by the FBI on their raid of President Trump’s residence. I say “materials” because it seems that not only were documents seized but even articles of clothing were seized.
First, here’s a nine minute discussion of Judge Cannon’s decision with Kash Patel. This discussion occurred prior to the DoJ appeal but is informative regarding the decision to appoint a special master. Among other points, Patel notes, as I did, that the judge was pretty clearly unimpressed with DoJ and the FBI, based on the way the warrant was sought and the way it was executed:

Regarding the DoJ appeal, Nick Arama has a fairly thorough discussion.
DOJ Makes Move to Stop Appointment of Special Master for Trump Raid Docs
Here I’ll just excerpt the three claims DoJ is making:
They’re claiming first, that Trump doesn’t have any right to protection over those documents.
Second, they’re claiming there could be irreparable harm if they didn’t continue to have access to the material to assess the national security interests that might be involved. They’re also claiming there could be harm by sharing it with a special master.
Third, they argue granting a stay on analyzing those select records wouldn’t harm Trump.
For practical purposes, the DoJ position amounts to asserting that the Deep State—or, Intel Community, if you prefer—is the sole party for deciding such matters, simply by asserting that the documents (dunno about the clothing) are classified. DoJ is clearly implying that the courts should simply butt out if DoJ asserts a “national security” interest. Who thinks there aren’t qualified people with high level clearances to serve as special master? So what’s this about harm in sharing the docs with a special master. Why not John Ratcliffe? DoJ’s claims are, to me, quite shocking. I’d like to see them slapped down hard. Judges aren’t stupid, and the implications for our constitutional order aren’t hard to see.
A technical, but important, aspect of this DoJ appeal is that it was docketed as an “interlocutory appeal,” meaning, an appeal before a final decision on a given case. The key here is that interlocutory appeals are only allowed in certain circumstances. The question—which I’m not competent to address—then becomes: Does this appeal qualify?


Status Of The MAL Raid In Court
"They’re also claiming there could be harm by sharing it with a special master."
Can't disagree here. I mean gosh, the Special Master might call up the WaPo and leak details about them or leak funny staged pictures of them.
One of the worst aspects of the corruption of our institutions is we used to be able to, as a nation, trust them to be tolerably even handed. That of course created great distrust among progs who trust nothing they can't control. So they corrupted them and made them reliably biased in their favor and now the rest of us can no longer trust them for the foreseeable future. Even were they returned to a relatively nonpartisan nature it would take decades to restore the trust the progs destroyed.
The Left is going to get Trump at any cost before the elections. Doesn't matter what laws and legal niceties are in their way. Too many people just aren't getting where we are at. Do we really believe that the Dems are just going to fold up their tents and go home if some 11th circuit judges stiff them? This is war by other means and the Dems are never going to give up power willingly.