WASHINGTON – The Justice Department on Friday asked an appeals court to partially block a federal judge’s decision to appoint an outside arbitrator to review sensitive documents seized last month from In the residence of former President Donald J. Trump in Florida, a ruling froze the government’s access to the material.
In one Profile 29 pages, the department’s lawyers did not ask the appellate court to stop installing the arbitrator, called a special master, though they called the lower court’s decision “unprecedented” and erroneous. Instead, they asked the appeals court to allow the FBI to immediately regain unchecked access to about 100 classified documents and not submit those documents through an independent arbitration process.
“Although the government believes that the district court was fundamentally wrong in appointing a special expert and providing relief under the order, the government only sought to withhold the parts of the order that caused the most damage. and immediately to the government and the public,” the lawyer wrote. the department’s national security division, described their request as narrowly tailored.
