In case of a setback for donald trumpan appeals court allowed the US Ministry of Justice continue to use secret records from the former President’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

What happened: The three-person board of US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Noting that “the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the preservation of the classified records does not result in ‘extraordinarily serious harm to national security'” reported Associated Press.

The court said the finding “necessarily involves examining the documents, determining who had access to them and when, and deciding which (if any) sources or methods are compromised.”

The court said an injunction or delay in preventing a criminal investigation from using classified materials risks causing real and significant harm to the United States and the public, the AP said.

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Why it matters: The court observed Trump’s apparent release of the confiscated documents.

The judge said: “The plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. But the recording contains no evidence that any of those recordings were declassified,” the AP reported.

“In any case, the declassification argument is a red herring, at least for these purposes, since declassifying an official document would neither change its content nor make it personal.”

Florida federal judge aileen cannon, a Trump appointee had previously rejected the government’s request for a partial stay of an order barring the DoJ from reviewing the seized materials. The judge also appointed a special master, the Senior District Judge Raymond Deariein the event of.

Trump got lawyers on Wednesday rapped by Dearie in the first hearing on the seized papers, who questioned them about claims that Trump classified the documents.

Trump had earlier praised Cannon on Truth Social as “brilliant and courageous” and said the DoJ will…