The Eleventh Circuit in Donald J. Trump v. United States, the government's appeal from the ruling by district judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special master to review the government's ongoing investigation related to the former president. The Court went through the relevant factors for such a ruling, found them all wanting and came to this conclusion:
Only one possible justification for equitable jurisdiction remains: that Plaintiff is a former President of the United States. It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president -- but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation. ... To create a special exception here would defy our Nation's foundational principle that our law applies "to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank." State of Georgia v. Brailsford, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 1, 4 (1794).
And so a very ordinary ruling by the appellate court corrects a very big error by the district judge.
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