A federal judge in Florida denied a U.S. request to use documents with classified markings seized from former U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s Mar-a-Lago estate in a criminal investigation and named U.S. District Court Judge Raymond J. Dearie as special master to review all 11,000 documents that were taken.
Both the Justice Department and Trump¡¯s attorneys had agreed that Dearie would be a suitable candidate, one of the rare moments of consensus in a case otherwise rife with politics and dispute.
The government had asked to keep using about 100 documents that it said featured classification labels in a probe of alleged mishandling of government records after the judge ordered that a special master be appointed and temporarily barred investigators from using the materials.
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