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US Supreme Court declines to weigh in on Trump document dispute

Former US President Donald Trump has argued the investigation into his possible mishandling of classified documents is politically motivated [File: Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

The US Supreme Court has rejected a request by Donald Trump‘s lawyers to intervene in a legal battle over classified documents seized from the former United States president’s Florida estate.

A lower court had barred an independent arbiter from reviewing more than 100 classified files seized from Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home in an FBI search in August.

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