Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday sent an appeal to the Supreme Court to reinstate a special master review of classified documents seized by the FBI in August.
Former President Donald Trump sent an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asking the Court to intervene in the Department of Justice investigation of federal documents seized from his Florida estate.
The appeal, filed on Tuesday and later released by Politico, asks the Court to issue an emergency order and reinstate a special master review of 100 classified documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—which Thomas oversees—”lacked jurisdiction” when it removed the documents from the larger special master review order by Judge Aileen Cannon, according to the court filing.
Trump’s lawyers also said in the appeal that the DOJ had “attempted to criminalize a document management dispute and now vehemently objects to a transparent process that provides much-needed oversight.”
The move by Trump’s lawyers—issued just a few days after the DOJ had asked the appeals court to expedite its appeal of the larger special master review—is considered a “very questionable move” by legal experts, including former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, who tweeted about the appeal Tuesday evening.
