DOJ lawyers acknowledged completion of the review just one week after Trump’s lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking to block FBI and DOJ officials from reviewing the material. The same filing also sought the appointment of a special master to review the documents. The DOJ’s filing also acknowledges receipt of District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order from two days prior, stating she was “leaning towards granting a request from Trump's legal team to appoint a special master to intervene in the ongoing review of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago,” according to ABC News. A “filter team” used by the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is sorting through the documents and conducting a classification review of the documents to weed out anything that should not be seen by criminal investigators. That team, according to the filing, identified a limited set of materials that may contain attorney-client privilege information. The DOJ says that it will disclose more information later this week. A hearing has been set for Thursday, Sept. 1, in a federal court in Florida.The U.S. Department of Justice on Aug. 29 told a judge that it has completed its review of documents seized from former President Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.
