Former President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the fight over classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate. Correction: A previous tweet linking to this story was removed, as it contained an error.
For the first time ever, a special master has been granted to review documents in the criminal investigation of a former president. Here's why.at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to review part of an appeals court order dealing with classified documents seized at his Florida estate in early August.
The appeal came days after a three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said investigators could retain the classified documents and review them as part of a criminal investigation. The documents, the appeals court reasoned, belong to the government, not the former president.
Trump's attorneys focused on one aspect of the ruling in their appeal to the Supreme Court: Whether an independent special master appointed to review some of the material seized at Mar-a-Lago could also review the classified documents. That independent review is needed, Trump told the court,"to determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified."
It was not immediately clear how the broader review of the documents would be affected if Trump won his appeal. The Justice Department declined comment. "Any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a president’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice," Trump's attorneys said in the filing.
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