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The Supreme Court's decision today did not do what Donald Trump had asked: clear him of insurrection.

Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in election and policy coverage. On Monday, former solicitor general and Georgetown Law professor Neal Katyal took to Twitter to dissect all of the problems with District Judge Aileen Cannon's decision granting former President Donald Trump's request to have a special master review the materials the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago as part of the investigation into improperly removed classified information.

The archives letter which DOJ submitted to the Judge makes it clear current President thinks none of this is privileged. Archivist says it is 'not a close' question. Furthermore, Katyal noted, the opinion " enjoins the entire investigation because some of the material might be subject to Executive Privilege. At most, it simply means these are Executive documents that must be returned to the archives.

And that's before getting into the fact that a special master simply isn't equipped to resolve the issues Cannon alluded to, wrote Katyal, including which documents, exactly, are subject to privilege and why, and which documents would do "reputational harm" to Trump. It makes no sense. And beyond all of that, Katyal argued, Cannon failed utterly to prove that either Trump has standing, since the documents belonged to the Archives and not him in the first place, or that she herself even has jurisdiction to hear the case, given the magistrate judge who approved the warrant could have heard this question.

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