The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject Donald Trump’s effort to have the justices intervene in the dispute over classified records seized this summer from the former president’s private club, Mar-a-Lago.
The DOJ told the justices in a filing that they should reject the appeal from Trump, and that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit properly separated classified documents from the rest of the documents the FBI took during the execution of a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation.
A federal district judge in Florida had issued an “unprecedented” order restricting the government’s ability to use its own documents to conduct a criminal investigation, the DOJ told the justices. The 11th Circuit issued a stay of that order only for documents marked as classified.
