Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents dispute

Former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a fist while reacting to applause after speaking at the North Carolina GOP convention dinner in Greenville, North Carolina, June 5, 2021.

Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over the Department of Justice's review of documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Florida home.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the DOJ to use classified documents seized in the raid as part of its ongoing criminal probe of Trump, but Trump urged the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling.

Lawyers for the former president argue that the 11th Circuit doesn't have the power to review an order from a lower federal court judge who had appointed a third-party watchdog to examine all of the seized documents.

More than 10,000 government documents were found in a raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club. According to court records, more than 100 of those documents were classified.

The federal government had been trying to get Trump to return documents they believed he took when he left office. The National Archives and Records Administration must get government documents when a president leaves office.

A federal judge in Florida was asked by Trump to appoint a special master to review the documents seized in the raid to see if they should be used in the criminal investigation.

Cannon appointed Judge Raymond Dearie from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York as special master. Cannon temporarily stopped the DOJ from using any of the documents.

The 11th Circuit was asked to lift Cannon's order as it applied to the classified material. That bid was granted by a panel of judges.

Cannon's appointment of a special master is not appealable, according to Trump's lawyers. When a case is still pending an appeal can be made to reverse a lower court ruling.

The filing said that the Eleventh Circuit granted a stay of the Special Master Order, effectively compromising the integrity of the well-established policy against piecemeal appellate review.

Lawyers for Trump wrote that the unwarranted stay was impairing the work of the Special Master.

The attorneys said that limits on the special master's review of the documents undermine public confidence in the justice system.

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