The special master will be Senior Judge Raymond Dearie , who was put forward as a possible candidate for the special master role by Trump, who had sued in court to obtain the review. Cannon gave the special master a deadline of November 30 to finish his review of potentially privileged documents. Cannon not convinced pausing criminal probe put national security at riskCannon on Thursday also rejected several other requests the Justice Department made about how the special master review should proceed. The Justice Department had wanted those documents excluded from the special master process entirely. In another rebuff to DOJ, the judge is also instructing the special master to review all of the documents that were seized,.

Source: CNN September 15, 2022 23:47 UTC