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Monday, December 12

OnPolitics: What's next for Mar-a-Lago documents review

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit that sought a special master review of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.

Hey OnPolitics readers. Today we learned the latest in the review of Mar-a-Lago documents, as Bart Jansen reports:

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit Monday that sought a special master review of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, after an appeals court ruled the review was unnecessary.

What it means: The ruling ends the document review, which was ordered after the FBI in August seized classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

How it started: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had ordered the special master review to potentially remove from criminal investigation any of the 11,000 documents from the investigation that were personal or fell under executive or attorney-client privilege.

DOJ said review wasn't needed and court agreed: The Justice Department appealed, calling the review unwarranted.

Trump did not appeal to Supreme Court: The appeals panel gave Trump a week to petition the Supreme Court by Thursday, but he didn't. Cannon formally dismissed the case Monday.

🔍 More context + what's next: The DOJ investigation of Trump moves forward.

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