A federal appeals court in the United States has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, as they evaluate an ongoing criminal investigation into the documents storage at Mar a Lago.The Atlanta-based 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by federal prosecutors to block a lower court’s decision barring them from using the classified documents in their investigation until an independent arbiter, known as a special master, had vetted the materials to weed out any that could be deemed privileged.The appeals court also said it would agree to reverse a portion of the order that required the government to hand over records with classification markings for the special master’s review.
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