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Court defeat for Trump over seized documents

A US federal appeals court has terminated the special master review of documents seized from Donald Trump’s property at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, allowing the justice department to regain access to all the materials for a criminal investigation.

The ruling – a decisive defeat for Trump – said a lower-court judge should never have granted his request for an independent arbiter in the first place and it is unlikely to be overturned. “The law is clear,” the appeals court wrote in an unanimous 23-page opinion. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”

A Trump spokesman said the decision did not address “the impropriety of the unprecedented, illegal and unwarranted raid on Mar-a-Lago,” and Trump would fight on. Hugo Lowell Washington

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