Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago case
Former President Trump filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the Justice Department’s seizure of documents at Mar-a-Lago.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the case involving classified records he kept at Mar-a-Lago after he left office.
Trump's legal team asked the court to allow the special master to review classified documents federal agents seized from Trump's estate in Florida, but they did not ask the justices to prevent the Justice Department from using the documents as part of a criminal investigation.
In their request, Trump's attorneys asked the court to vacate part of a ruling issued Sept. 21 by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the Justice Department could resume using classified documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in its criminal investigation and barred the special master from reviewing them.
The latter part of the appeals court decision "impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the special master,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the filing Tuesday. “Moreover, 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.”
The unanimous ruling last month by the three-judge panel, the former president's lawyers said, effectively compromised "the integrity of the well-established policy against piecemeal appellate review" and ignored "the district court’s broad discretion without justification."
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