The Supreme Court denied a request by former President Donald Trump to overturn a lower appeals court ruling related to the FBI raid and seizure of documents from his Florida residence.
There were more than 11,000 government records seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach and more than 100 classified documents that were found at his home.
The 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals barred the watchdog from looking at the documents. The Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation of Trump and can only review a small portion of his records.
Lawyers for Trump asked the Supreme Court to reverse the decision because it interfered with the work of the special master.
The attorneys argued that any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a president's home erodes public trust in our system of justice.
The DOJ asked the Supreme Court to deny Trump's appeal.
Trump has no plausible claims to the classified records, argued the U.S. solicitor general.
The Supreme Court denied the application to vacating the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Emergency appeals from the 11th Circuit are overseen by Thomas.
None of the Supreme Court justices dissented from the order.
It was not expected that Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court would affect the DOJ's decision on whether to charge him or others. The DOJ would continue to review the classified documents even if he had won.
The legal system and appeals process has been used by the former president to drag out investigations for decades.
He was the person who appointed three of the nine Supreme Court justices.
The DOJ is looking into Trump's actions when he left office and moved to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The documents must be handed over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
There is an obstruction of justice investigation going on by the DOJ.
After becoming aware that Trump may have government records in his possession, NARA recovered 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ opened a criminal investigation after learning that some of the documents were classified.
Trump's lawyers had claimed that a search of the club had turned up no records requested by the DOJ.
The seized material could not be used in the criminal investigation because they were protected by attorney-client or executive privilege.
Raymond Dearie was named to that role by Cannon.
The records were seized in the raid.
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