Donald Trump won his case.
An independent expert, federal magistrate, is now responsible for reviewing the thousands of documents seized in early August at the home of the former American president, ruled Thursday a judge, confirming also a decision limiting their access by the investigators.
The Republican billionaire had asked the court to appoint an independent third party to examine the papers seized during the August 8 search, spectacular and unprecedented for a former president.
The federal investigators behind this police operation suspect Donald Trump of having kept top secret documents at his home.
On Monday, the US Department of Justice said it accepted one of the names proposed by Trump's lawyers, and Florida Judge Aileen Cannon confirmed it Thursday evening It is Raymond Dearie, 78, federal judge of New York partially retired.
Until after the midterms
This expert is now responsible for determining whether certain documents seized could be returned to Donald Trump, and therefore would not be usable in the investigations targeting him.
He has until November 30, after the midterms, the crucial midterm legislative elections.
The judge, whom Donald Trump himself appointed in 2020, also upheld a previous ruling challenged by the Justice Department.
She had, last week, blocked the use of all the documents seized during the search as long as the independent expert would not have pronounced.
The ministry asked to be able to access at least some of them, a hundred, classified.
The magistrate rejected this request on Thursday.
The Justice Department is expected to appeal, and many experts believe it could win.
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