Former US President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in his fight with the Justice Department over classified documents seized from his Florida home as part of a criminal investigation into his handling of government records.
Trump filed an emergency request asking the justices to block part of a lower court's ruling that prevented an independent arbiter requested by Trump, known as a special master, from vetting more than 100 documents marked as classified that were among 11,000 records seized by FBI agents at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on Aug. 8.
Trump's lawyers in Tuesday's filing said Dearie should have access to "determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or presidential records." The investigation seeks to determine who accessed classified materials, whether they were compromised and if any remain unaccounted for. At issue in the 11th Circuit ruling were documents bearing classified markings of confidential, secret or top secret.
The three-judge 11th Circuit panel included two judges appointed by Trump and one by former President Barack Obama. In Tuesday's filing, Trump's attorneys said he had "broad authority governing classification of, and access to, classified documents." In an interview on Fox News last month, Trump again asserted without evidence that he declassified the documents and claimed he had the power to do it "even by thinking about it."
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