The order, which had no publicly noted dissent by any of the Court’s justices, means that the special master will not be allowed to review classified documents.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by denying a request from former President Donald Trump to allow a special master to review the classified documents that were seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August.
Trump had asked the Court to repeal a recent ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that banned the special master from reviewing around 100 documents labeled classified that were among the 11,000 documents seized from his Florida home, CNN reported.
The independent special master, requested by Trump, was tasked with examining whether any of the documents are protected by client or executive privilege. The documents were seized by FBI agents who searched Trump’s house after an approval from Attorney General Merrick Garland. The raid happened after law enforcement received a tip from an informant who was aware of the type of documents that Trump kept and their location.
The documents reportedly included sensitive information related to nuclear weapons and « highly classified programs.
