Huge win for 45 as Judge Raymond Dearie, the New York jurist appointed as a special master to review the documents taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, has been denied the right to request the former President’s attorneys to submit a declaration under oath regarding whether any of the documents listed in an FBI inventory of what was seized from Mar-a-Lago were planted as the former president has repeatedly suggested.

Judge Dearie had ordered Donald Trump’s attorneys to submit a declaration under oath regarding whether any of the documents listed in an FBI inventory were planted, but Judge Aileen Cannon of Florida on Thursday overruled him and said she was doing so because her order appointing him as a special master in the case did not direct him to ask for such declarations.

“There shall be no separate requirement on Plaintiff at this stage, prior to the review of any of the Seized Materials, to lodge ex ante final objections to the accuracy of Defendant’s Inventory, its descriptions, or its contents,” she wrote, adding that her previous order “did not contemplate that obligation”.

Judge Cannon also rejected an accelerated timeline for review of the documents that had been laid out by Judge Dearie, instead choosing to give the Trump team more leeway to delay the proceedings by extending the deadline for completion to 14 December, according to the Independent.