The US asks the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s request on seized documents

The Justice Department of USA asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject the petition filed by the former president’s legal team donald trump (2017-2021) that an independent expert review the classified material that was seized.

In a brief presented to the high court, the US government described the documents found in Trump’s residence as “extraordinarily delicate” and assured that if the independent expert is allowed to examine them, it will be causing a “irreparable damage”.

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The Department of Justice, in the hands of Democrat Merrick Garland -whose nomination to the Supreme Court was prevented in 2016 by senators from the Republican Party-, even insinuated that even if it were the judge himself who read these documents, he would be “jeopardizing national security”.

On August 8, the FBI carried out a search in Sea-to-Lakethe residence of Trump in Palm Beach (Florida), during which he seized some 11,000 official documents, including some 100 classified, that the former president did not return when he left the White House in January 2021.

As a result of a lawsuit filed by the former president, a judge of Florida authorized an independent expert to review the seized material, a decision that prevented the Justice Department continue with the review of classified documents.

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However, an appeals court later allowed the prosecution to continue the investigation of that material, to which Trump’s legal team responded in early October by elevating the case to supreme court.

From the beginning, Trump He has maintained that the search of his home is part of a political campaign to prevent the possibility of him running again as a Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Source: Elcomercio

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