Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents case
Former President Donald Trump has asked the United States Supreme Court to intervene in the ongoing battle over top-secret nuclear-related documents that were retrieved during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's August 8th search warrant execution at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida Mar-a-Lago beach house.
CNN reported on Tuesday afternoon that Trump's "emergency request with Supreme Court is the latest example of the former President seeking to involve the justices in investigations that entangle him – at a time when the high court’s legitimacy in politically explosive cases is under intense scrutiny."
The case is entangled in a legal battle of wits between the District Court of the Southern District of Florida and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Trump-appointed District Court Judge Aileen Cannon's pro-Trump decisions and her overruling of the orders of the special master whom she hired to manage the sorting of the classified materials at Trump's request – Senior Judge Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York – have faced widespread scrutiny and condemnation by experts.
The question now is how the Supreme Court and its Trump-nominated right-wing supermajority will treat the case, which centers around whether Trump had the right as the departing commander in chief to take whatever records he wanted. Trump and his lawyers argue that he did. The Justice Department, meanwhile, maintains that Trump's confiscation of White House property may constitute a breach of the Presidential Records Act. DOJ is also investigating Trump for possible violations of the Espionage Act.
This is a breaking news and developing story.
