The Justice Department and the Special Master - What's Gonna Happen?

The news today has been dominated by a lot of details and fuzzifying reporting about exactly what's happening to the documents that the FBI took back from Mar-a-Lago. You might have seen these headlines all weekend long about the request from Trump for a special master to review those documents, but I think it's easy to lose the forest for the trees on a legal tangent like this particular one. This whole fight over the special master thing is the Trump side trying to delay the Justice Department and its ability to use the documents as part of their ongoing criminal investigation. So they're trying to delay it and make it more complicated. On the other side, the Justice Department now has to wait