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The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to intervene in his legal battle with the Justice Department and allow the special master to review the classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago during an FBI raid on August 8, according to The Hill.
Justice
Clarence Thomas referred the matter to the full court in a brief unsigned
order, The Hill reported. Mr. Clarence handles matters arising from Florida.
The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had given an interim ruling in favor of
the Justice Department that exempted roughly 100 classified records from review
by the newly appointed special master who is currently reviewing thousands of
records recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The
one-sentence denial from the high court is coming more than a week after Trump
requested that the justices overrule a lower-court decision barring independent
special master involved in the case from vetting classified documents,
according to The Washington Times.
The court
did not explain its decision. The ruling came as the House Select Committee
investigating the January 6 siege at the U.S. considers possible subpoena to
compel Mr. Trump to testify before the panel over his attempts to overturn his
2020 defeat by President Joe Biden.
The Justice
Department has been investigating whether the former President broke federal
law when he removed highly classified materials from the White House during his
departure from the White House.
The Justice
Department has been reviewing more than 11,000 government records seized from
Trump’s Palm Beach Florida estate during a raid by the FBI, the Washington
Examiner reported.
This week
the Justice Department filed a response to Trump’s Supreme Court appeal asking
the court to deny Trump’s bid, according to the Washington Examiner.