Thursday 22 September 2022 12:53 AM DOJ CAN continue to probe classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago  trends now

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A federal appeals court is allowing Justice Department lawyers to continue looking at the documents marked as classified that wore taken from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago during the August raid.

The emergency ruling overturns a trial judge's order over those documents that blocked federal investigators' work on the documents.

The court that made the ruling was stacked with Donald Trump appointees. The former president appointed two out of three of the judges on the panel.

The department filed the appeal with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after another federal judge, Aileen Cannon, who sits in Florida, ruled against the government's request to separate documents marked 'classified' from those being sorted through by the special master.

'They're panicking,' Trump lawyer Alina Habba said.

'This is what happens. This is not what the DOJ is supposed to do. This is not what the FBI is supposed to do. But that is what I think is happening.'

'Now the Department of Justice filed this crazy raid, pretending it's all these criminal actions, because it's around the corner to November, and this is what we like to call an October surprise, which we've seen before,' she said.