‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge’s Intervention in Trump Inquiry

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/us/trump-special-master-aileen-cannon.html

A specialist in separation of powers, Peter M. Shane, who is a legal scholar in residence at N.Y.U., said there was no basis for Judge Cannon to expand a special master’s authority to screen materials that were also potentially subject to executive privilege. That tool is normally thought of as protecting internal executive branch deliberations from disclosure to outsiders like Congress.