Federal investigators can now review the documents unimpeded.

Back in August, FBI investigators conducted a search and raid of former United States President Donald Trump’s home in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump was under suspicion of illegally removing classified documents from the White House following his departure from office, resulting in over 13,000 documents being seized in the raid. However, following this, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request for a special master to be appointed to review the documents before the FBI, as Trump believed he had executive privilege rights on some of them.

That ruling stalled out the investigation for several months, but as of this week, it can officially resume. With a unanimous ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, the special master’s review has been halted, and the FBI can now begin their review of the seized documents in earnest.

In an opinion penned on the matter, the Appeals Court judges stressed that, counter to Trump’s claims, the FBI had full and probable cause to search his home. The Judges noted that the Justice Department “presented an FBI agent’s sworn affidavit to a Florida magistrate judge, who agreed that probable cause existed to believe that evidence of criminal violations would likely be found at Mar-a-Lago.”

“The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so,” Chief Judge William Pryor and Judges Britt Grant and Andrew Brasher said in their 23-page opinion. “Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.”

“This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation,” the judges wrote. “The answer is no.”

Trump may call for a new hearing on the case with the 11th Court, or appeal the matter to the Supreme Court.