The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling appointing a special master to review documents the FBI seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida club.

At the same time, DOJ attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida to pause portions of her ruling preventing the Justice Department from using classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago to further its investigation. The department said it’s likely to succeed in the case “even under the court’s own reasoning” because Trump could not claim possession of classified government documents.

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