“The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny a petition from Donald Trump’s attorneys in the Mar-a-Lago search case, arguing that allowing an outside arbiter to review the classified documents seized from Trump’s residence would ‘irreparably injure’ the government and that as former president he has no ‘plausible’ claims of ownership over sensitive government materials,” the Washington Post reports.
“It’s the latest turn in the department’s high-stakes investigation to determine whether the former president or his advisers mishandled national security secrets, or hid or destroyed government records. Prosecutors have accused Trump’s team of failing to turn over highly sensitive government documents when asked, and over the summer took the extraordinary step of executing a search warrant at his home and private club in South Florida.”
