'This special master opinion is so bad it's hard to know where to begin,' said one legal scholar.
, including 18 designated as top secret—signifying that their mishandling risks exceptionally grave damage to national security.
Further, how can national security officials make determinations on how best to protect the nation if criminal investigators are enjoined from taking investigative steps that may also serve that very purpose? Indeed, some government officials would typically be part of both of these reviews—such as the attorney general himself. The order's false dichotomy does not take account of those realities that are needed to protect us all.
"On the other hand, there will undoubtedly be disagreements over particular documents that will then need to be referred by the special master for resolution by the judge, and those decisions could then be subject to appeal," they added."Nobody knows how much time that review will require. And the DOJ may not be able to afford leaving this order's precedent on the books, given its numerous analytical flaws.
Jessica Levinson, director of the Public Service Insitute at Loyola Law School, made the case for why the DOJ should appeal or file a motion for reconsideration.
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