The long-running legal thriller continues with the case of the secret classified government documents found and seized by the FBI from the former US president’s mansion on August 8.
The winding legal thriller continues with the case of the secret classified government documents found and seized by the FBI from the former US president’s Mar-a-Lago mansion on August 8.
In the latest development, the Justice Department opposes Donald Trump’s Oct. 4 request to the U.S. Supreme Court to appoint an independent expert to review more than 100 classified documents that were among approximately 11,000 files seized by FBI agents.
The Justice Department yesterday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the former president’s petition because it did not focus on a “clear error” in a lower court’s decision or show how that decision harmed him.
Trump filed a lawsuit on Aug. 22 in an attempt to limit the Justice Department’s access to the documents as he faces a criminal investigation into his possession of government records, some of which are highly classified, including classified records. and had been transferred to Mar-a-Lago, after he left the White House in January 2021.
Trump, during his appeal, had asked a judge to appoint an independent expert, as she later did, to evaluate the documents that had been seized and decide which of them had special privileged status in relation to the exercise of executive power, so that do not allow access to those of the competent services conducting the criminal investigation.
The US Supreme Court is dominated by conservative justices (6-3), including three Trump appointees.
In documents filed yesterday, the Justice Department argues that Trump’s request should be denied because he failed to show that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ conclusion regarding “the serious breach of executive branch privacy for the control, use, and distribution of extremely sensitive government documents’.
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