The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday filed a notice of intent to appeal the judge's ruling that granted Donald Trump's request for a special magistrate to review documents seized from the former president's Florida residence and stripped federal officials of access to the records.
Trump's legal team got a judge to endorse his request for a person outside the investigation opened by federal agents to review the more than 10,000 documents belonging to the US Government and that were in the Mar-a-Lago residence of the tycoon, reported 'The Washington Post'.
The Justice Department's lawyers have asked federal judge Aileen M. Cannon to suspend this review, warning that, if she does not grant it before September 15, they will present their appeal before an appeals court.
Cannon on Monday barred prosecutors from using the seized material until it is reviewed by a magistrate. This decision delays, at least temporarily, a high-profile criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information at the former president's Florida home and club, as well as the possible concealment, manipulation or destruction of government records, according to the newspaper.
Among the documents collected by FBI agents during the raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence last month were some confidential files that would even describe a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.