The noose is getting tighter.
The DOJ is appealing the "Special Master" ruling also.
Judge cannon's orders are falling apart.
"Supreme Court rejects Trump request on Mar-a-Lago documents
The one-sentence order amounted to a quick and sharp denial of an emergency request by the former president
By Robert Barnes and Perry Stein
Updated October 13, 2022 at 4:45 p.m. EDT|Published October 13, 2022 at 3:07 p.m. EDT
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s order that a special master review classified documents taken in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club.
There were no noted dissents to the court’s unsigned, one-sentence order. It amounted to a quick and sharp rejection of an emergency request by the former president to intervene in the high-profile document review, which is part of an ongoing criminal investigation of the potential mishandling of classified material after Trump left the White House.
The review is being done by special master Raymond J. Dearie, a federal judge in Brooklyn who was recommended for the job by Trump’s legal team. Trump’s lawyers asked for a review of all of the approximately 11,000 documents seized by the FBI to see whether any should be shielded from investigators because of attorney-client or executive privilege.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit put on hold Cannon’s order that 103 of the seized documents that bore classified markings should be part of Dearie’s review. It also reversed Cannon’s finding that the Justice Department could not continue its use of the classified documents in a criminal probe.
continue its use of the classified documents in a criminal probe.
The Trump team did not try to persuade the Supreme Court to withhold the documents from Justice Department investigators, which is considered the more important part of the appeals court’s order. But it did challenge the 11th Circuit’s order that Dearie should not examine the classified documents.
Such a review might have required showing the classified files to Trump’s legal team so they could have made claims about privilege. The government has said some of the seized documents are extremely sensitive, and The Washington Post has reported that authorities recovered one document that described a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.
The Trump team’s request said, in effect, that key parts of Cannon’s order were not properly before the 11th Circuit. The Justice Department’s response was that all provisions of Cannon’s involvement in the case were entangled and that the appeals court’s action was warranted.
The Justice Department said allowing an outside arbiter to review the classified documents would “irreparably injure” the government and argued that Trump had offered no evidence he would be harmed without the Supreme Court’s intervention. As a former president, the government said, Trump has no “plausible” claims of ownership over sensitive government materials."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ied-documents/
Supreme court rejects trump appeal in one sentence ruling.
