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The Judge in the Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation Is Recklessly Endangering the Rule of Law
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyJudge Aileen Cannon’s granting of former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to oversee review of documents seized from Mar-A-Lago and her stopping the Justice Department from further review of those documents sets a dangerous legal precedent that could potentially derail not just criminal investigation of Trump’s actions but future criminal investigations of every ilk.To start, Judge Cannon’s opinion is deeply flawed, resting as it