A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a neutral third party to review materials that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, ordered that a third-party attorney who is outside the government be brought in to review the documents that were taken from Trump’s home and resort in Florida.

The ruling also stops the Justice Department from continuing its own review of the documents “pending completion of the special master’s review or further Court order.” However, the classification review and intelligence assessments being conducted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will be allowed to continue.

“As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Cannon wrote, per CNN.

“A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude,” she continued.

Cannon explained that the special master will be responsible for reviewing “seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege.”

She added that the “Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavored but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards.”

This past weekend during a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump took time to blast the Justice Department and the seizure of documents from his estate.

“This egregious abuse of the law is going to produce a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. … These same exact people at Justice and the FBI, these same exact people, along with outside scum, are at it again with the horrific raid of my home. They just go on and on and they have to be stopped,” he claimed.

Cannon, however, wrote that the former president had not proven that his constitutional rights were disregarded during the search. “[T]he Court agrees with the Government that, at least based on the record to date, there has not been a compelling showing of callous disregard for Plaintiff’s constitutional rights,” she wrote.

Cannon has set a Friday deadline for Trump’s lawyers and the Justice Department to submit a list of potential candidates to serve in the special master role.

Ethen Kim Lieser is a Washington state-based Finance and Tech Editor who has held posts at Google, The Korea Herald, Lincoln Journal Star, AsianWeek, and Arirang TV. Follow or contact him on LinkedIn.

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