A group of former Republican administration lawyers is once again siding with President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in a legal fight involving Donald Trump, this time against the former president in his fight for a special master to review documents he took when he left the White House.

“The district court’s order repeatedly granted the plaintiff in this case, former President Donald J. Trump, procedural rights and protections that are not afforded to other criminal defendants,” reads the amicus brief filed Thursday morning in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit as Trump heads to the appeals court next week for oral arguments in the dispute. 

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