A hearing is being held Thursday in federal court in Florida on a judge’s order indicating she was inclined to appoint a special masster to review documents seized from former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate last month. A legal filing this week says the Justice Department has already identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.” But Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says while the appointment of a special master may delay the investigation, questions still remain why the former president was in possession of any of the documents that were recovered. A newly unsealed FBI document includes a letter from one of Trump’s lawyers asserting the commander-in-chief has broad authority to declassify whatever he wants. But Farrell says a president doesn’t have a right to keep White House records classified or declassified. Farrell says there is a also process that a president has to follow when it comes to declassifying records:
