The plan and timeline set by U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie states that by Monday, the Justice Department must provide electronic copies of the material not labeled as classified to both Dearie and the Trump team. For each document, Trump’s lawyers must then say whether he claims attorney-client privilege or executive privilege, or whether the document is a personal or presidential file, according to Dearie’s latest instructions. For any document that Trump and his team designate as privileged and/or personal, they must include a statement explaining the rationale behind that statement. The administration provided Trump and his lawyers with documents that the Justice Department’s “filter team” had found could potentially be privileged, and Diery said in Thursday’s deposition that Trump must then provide a log of the names of the material — as to whether it claims privilege and whether it is personal or presidential — to the government by Monday. A courtroom sketch shows Judge Raymond Dearie presiding over his first public hearing since being appointed as a special master to review documents seized by the FBI last month from Donald Trump’s Florida home, in a courtroom in New York, September 20, 2022. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters Trump’s team must submit a final and complete review of all documents to the government by Oct. 14, according to the special master. Both parties must submit a log of any disputed names to Dearie by October 21. (Dearie said he needs the help of a retired federal judge, James Orenstein, to help him with his review.) Where there is a dispute with the government, the special master will settle it. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday eased Dieri’s task by removing classified documents from its review and restoring the government’s access to them as part of its investigation into how Trump, who denies wrongdoing, handled records after he left office. Among the materials the FBI says it recovered from Mar-a-Lago, court documents showed, were 11 sets of documents of various categories, from confidential to top secret and sensitive information. FBI photo of redacted documents and classified covers recovered from a container stored at former US President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, included in a US Department of Justice filing on August 30, 2022. US Department of Justice via Reuters The 11th Circuit’s ruling Wednesday was a partial stay of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order naming a special master and effectively freezing the government’s work pending Dearie’s review. Cannon on Thursday amended her order in light of the appeals decision, marking parts of her ruling that the special master must prioritize documents marked classified and make interim reports and recommendations as appropriate. Cannon also removed a measure that required classified documents and attached documents to be available for inspection by Trump’s lawyers.
