ICYMI: A group of former prosecutors who served in GOP administrations told the 11th Circuit on Friday that Judge Cannon's #specialmaster ruling had given Trump special treatment. The group urged the court to let DOJ continue using seized classified records in its criminal probe
"A former President is entitled to no greater protection under the law than is any other citizen..[C]oncern for reputational harm is not a valid basis for enjoining a criminal investigation, especially one that is inexorably intertwined with a national security damage assessment"
The assessment was included in a proposed amicus brief by a half dozen former federal prosecutors and former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who argue that Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, is "affording greater protection to the plaintiff because he is a former president"
Judge Cannon concluded that the seizure at Mar-a-Lago was "in a league of its own" because Trump is a former president, and that a future indictment "would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude." The former prosecutors said that finding is wrong
"And even if hypothetical reputational harm were a legally cognizable interest, it certainly would not supersede the national security interests at stake in regard to these classified documents and justify enjoining a criminal investigation," the group said
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