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Trump asks high court to step in on FBI case

Reversal sought of lower-court ruling

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump called upon the Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that reversed a lower court ruling allowing for a special master to review allegedly classified documents seized at Mar-a-lago.

Last month, an appeals court panel for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request for a partial stay of a lower court order, allowing the DOJ to continue its criminal investigation using roughly 100 allegedly classified documents the FBI seized from Trump’s Florida resort home. Trump wants the Supreme Court to intervene.

“The 11th Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review, much less stay, an interlocutory order of the District Court providing for the Special Master to review materials seized from President Trump’s home, including approximately 103 documents the Government contends bear classification markings,” Trump’s lawyers told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The three-judge panel’s decision last month was a win for the DOJ, with the appeals court reversing Judge Aileen Cannon’s determination that the DOJ would have to provide seized documents with classified markings to special master Judge Raymond Dearie for independent review.

Cannon, a Trump-appointed district court judge in Florida who named Dearie as special master last month, ruled that she “temporarily enjoins the Government from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes pending completion of the special master’s review or further Court order.”

But the circuit judges who unanimously sided with the DOJ.

Dearie had cast doubt on the former president’s declassification claims during a court hearing last month.

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