Judge’s order for Trump special master is deeply flawed, legal experts say
A judge's order approving a special master to review documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump's home is deeply flawed and unworkable, legal experts said.
A judge's order approving a special master to review documents the FBI took from former President Donald Trump's Florida home is a deeply flawed and unworkable mess, legal experts told NBC News on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday granted Trump’s request to have a special master review all the evidence seized last month from his Mar-a-Lago estate and temporarily blocked parts of the Justice Department’s investigation into the trove of top secret and classified documents retrieved by federal agents.
Cannon, 41, a Trump appointee, also put forth legal defense arguments that Trump's team hadn't made, among them that the former president could suffer reputational "injury" if the Justice Department indicted him.
Legal experts blasted the overall ruling and questioned how it could be implemented, while warning that an appeal by the government could drag the investigation out further.
“I think it’s a corrupt decision. I think it is a special law just for Donald Trump by a Trump appointee, and it is unmoored from precedent, insupportable in law, will not be approved of by anybody who isn’t a Trump fanatic,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a Department of Homeland Security official under former President George W. Bush.
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