Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has now appointed retired Judge Raymond Dearie to serve as the special master in the Mar-a-Lago raid case. Dearie is a Reagan-era New York federal judge who served from 1986 to 2011.

Breitbart reports:

After retiring from his position in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Dearie served a seven-year term on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court. While on the FISA Court, Dearie was one of the judges who approved the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

An Inspector General report later declared two of the four surveillance warrants regarding Page invalid after finding the FBI included several misstatements and omissions in the warrant application.

Although some thought it would be odd for Trump’s team to nominate one of the judges who approved an improperly-founded surveillance warrant on one of his former aides, that could also work to Trump’s advantage because the judge would be keenly aware of the potential for FBI abuses.

Dearie’s appointment as special master comes after Trump’s legal team requested one be appointed to conduct an independent review of the documents the FBI seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August.

“The Court is not persuaded that the Government will suffer an irreparable injury without the requested stay,” Cannon wrote denying the DOJ’s request for a stay to access the seized documents.