The legal team for the former President refused to elaborate on his claims about declassifying the documents.
In a filing to the court-appointed special master that Trump requested, his attorneys said the "time and place" for making such a disclosure would come in a motion in a criminal trial as an attempt to recover his property.
Trump's legal team wrote that the Special Master process would have forced thePlaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment without such a requirement being evident in the district court's order.
The resistance came after Trump's attorneys said the former president declassified more than 300 documents recovered from his Florida home, but stopped short of fully making the claim.
In a filing last week, Trump's legal team said that the government assumed that if a document has a classification mark, it remains classified.
They said there was no legitimate contention that the chief executive's declassification of documents required approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch.
The Justice Department took a hint from Trump's lawyer in their next filing.
The records are classified under the Presidential Records Act. The Department of Justice stated that there was no evidence that any of the seized records had been declassified.
It said that the possibilities should not be given weight unless competent evidence is presented.
The intelligence agencies that manage records must take additional steps after a president declassifies them.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Monday, asking for the "standing" declassification order that Trump has pointed to.
The Department of Justice has argued that Trump has no reason to stop the executive branch from reviewing the classified records because they are classified as government property.
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