The former president blasted the National Archives in a statement Tuesday.
President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and annul a ruling that allowed the Justice Department access to from Mar-a-Lago that were marked as classified.
The former president’s application is addressed to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose purview includes the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which made the earlier ruling.
The former president’s team filed the emergency request with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing the special master, or independent arbiter, appointed by the district judge to screen documents for attorney-client or executive privilege should be allowed to review records marked as classified.
, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed to put a hold on the lower court’s order to keep records with classified markings off limits to the Justice Department’s investigation, pending the review by the independent . The appeals court allowed the Justice Department to resume using those documents in its investigation and said that it did not have to turn them over to the special master.
