The Supreme Court has denied former President Donald Trump’s motion to allow Special Master Raymond Dearie access to review the approximately 100 classified documents seized by the FBI in its raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
In a brief order, the Supreme Court ruled: “The application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on September 21, 2022, presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
Trump’s attorneys last week elevated the former president’s legal battle to the Supreme Court, requesting that Justice Clarence Thomas, who has jurisdiction over the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, vacate the stay by a lower court that allowed the DOJ to review classified records taken in August from Mar-a-Lago instead of court-appointed Special Master Raymond Dearie.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an injunction against the DOJ’s use of the 100 documents purportedly marked as classified to be used for investigative purposes.
The 11th Circuit overturned Cannon’s order and prevented Dearie from reviewing those materials. The panel had limited Dearie’s review to only the non-classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
The Supreme Court’s order comes after the Justice Department this week asked that the high court deny Trump’s request to block the DOJ from continuing its review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August.
Trump’s legal team had asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but the Justice Department in a filing on Tuesday argued that the court of appeals “correctly held that it had appellate jurisdiction to review and stay the portion of the September 5 order that requires the government to turn over the documents bearing classification markings for special-master review.”
The Justice Department argued that even if there were “some doubt on that score,” Trump “certainly cannot establish the clear error required to justify the relief he seeks — particularly because he does not acknowledge, much less attempt to rebut, the court of appeals’ conclusion that the district court’s order was a serious and unwarranted intrusion on the Executive Branch’s authority to control the use and distribution of extraordinarily sensitive government records.”
“The application should be denied,” the Justice Department said in its filing.
But Trump’s legal team, in their initial filing to the Supreme Court, argued that “the unprecedented circumstances presented by this case—an investigation of the Forty-Fifth President of the United States by the administration of his political rival and successor—compelled the District Court to acknowledge the significant need for enhanced vigilance and to order the appointment of a Special Master to ensure fairness, transparency, and maintenance of the public trust.”
The Justice Department last month, in its 11th Circuit filing, is working to appeal Cannon’s decision to appoint a special master altogether, arguing that it is unable to examine records taken from Trump’s Florida estate that may constitute as evidence of crimes.
“The government is thus unable to examine records that were commingled with materials bearing classification markings, including records that may shed light on, for example, how the materials bearing classification markings were transferred to Plaintiff’s residence, how they were stored, and who may have accessed them,” DOJ officials wrote in the appeal. “The records not marked as classified may also constitute evidence of potential violations …”
DOJ officials also stated in the filing that an expedited appeal “if successful” would allow the government to “more quickly resume its full investigation without restraints on its review and use of evidence seized pursuant to a lawful search warrant.”
Trump has denied that any of the materials in his possession at Mar-a-Lago were classified.
Dearie was tasked with reviewing approximately 11,000 records seized by the FBI during its raid of Trump’s private residence. The special master and his team were to review those records for executive privilege, attorney-client privilege and for personal records.
Dearie’s deadline to review the documents was extended to Dec. 16. The original deadline was Nov. 30.
There is absolutely no justice for President Trump. What a sad country we’ve turned into. Why do they hate a man that did so much for America and her people? I think it’s b/c he was taking away their under the table deals and exposing how they’re screwing the American people.
Justice Thomas is trying to redeem himself to the left after his opinion on Roe v Wade!
It has to be the reason for not taking on this matter, nothing else explains it!
The Communist New World Order Supreme Court, & the Democrat communist N.W.O GESTAPO NAZIS & all the COMMUNIST INFILTRATED demonic 3-lettered agencies of this corrupted DEMOCRAT SCOALIST GOV has not only STOLEN MANY ELECTIONS but has been coming after the people transparently for the past 20 years, who could spill any truth on their Democrat demonic N.W.O. plans, there are no friends in a corrupted Democrat gov for law abiding American constitutional loving people, WE ALL KNOW what everyone has to do start eliminating these DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ANTI-AMERICAN ANTICHRIST,AMERICA,ANTICHRIST COMMUNIST PIGS, they are worse than any foreign enemies cuz they’re committing their terrorism against America and American people on our own tax money building up facist armies to constrict and remove our freedoms this government & facist agencies has no longer any credibility in the eyes of the real true Americans, and that includes the corrupted satanic traditional system of Epstein Island vacationing demons, who helped let in the drug cartels murderers and terrorist illegal aliens in our country to destroy us, nor can it be trusted anymore, people know this, & you should know by now how to respond to these domestic terrorist demons when they come to you, they are pure demonic evil and you have the right to defend yourself, Constitution and Country against any domestic terrorist, and right now America’s under a democrat domestic communist attack, make no mistake about it they already destroyed any form of Justice in his corrupted government court systems, now they’re coming for the innocent people trying to protect feed and support their families, their communist invasion is in full swing and death to any who resists is on their agenda we can see that clearly, and if Americans don’t resist and fight this evil back it will only get worse corrupted government has to be cleaned out by the people not by corrupted judges or court systems
If this CORRUPTION continues,like I have said before,Jan 6 will end up looking like an Alice in Wonderland Tea Party. Enough is ENOUGH!!!!