An appeals court for the 11th Circuit ruled Thursday to overturn the appointment of a special master in the investigation of documents taken from Trump's Mar-a-Lago

A unanimous federal appeals court on Thursday ended an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention of top-secret government information.

The Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of White House documents got a major boost Thursday, as a federal appeals court ruled a judge was wrong to interfere with the probe by appointing a special master to review material seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home.

The federal investigation of top-secret documents taken from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Fla., home will no longer be overseen by a “special master,” under a Thursday ruling from a federal appeals court in Atlanta.

The ruling rejects arguments from Trump’s lawyers, who had said that the former president was entitled to have a so-called “special master” conduct a neutral review of the thousands of documents taken from the property.