Attorneys for former President Trump ask federal judge to unseal the probable cause affidavit outlining the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Trump.
in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, including by dangling the prospect of a presidential pardon.
The magistrate judge who signed off on the search warrant, Bruce Reinhart, released a redacted version of the affidavit in late August that kept under wraps the information the government was concerned about becoming public. It showed that Trump had been hoarding classified documents since he left the White House in Jan. 2021.
The Justice Department asked the appeals court to dismiss Cannon's order appointing a special master in the case which blocked investigators from using thousands of documents recovered in their Aug. 8 search as part of their probe until the review is done. Lawyers for DOJ argued a narrower appeal from the same order earlier this year, charging the judge
One of the judges also seemed unimpressed by Trump lawyer Jim Trusty's complaint that extraordinary action was needed in this case because federal investigators had gathered up personal items like pictures of singer Celine Dion while they were executing a search warrant for government documents.
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