A federal judge in Florida on Thursday appointed a veteran judge to serve as special master to review materials seized at former President Donald Trump’s residence, and denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request to exclude documents deemed classified from that examination.

U.S. District Senior Judge Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York was appointed special master in the case to review about 11,000 documents seized from Trump’s Florida club, Mar-a-Lago for attorney-client and executive privilege, and to determine if certain records are personal and should be returned to Trump.

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