Will the U.S. Supreme Court take a quick look at limited aspects of the case involving the Biden Regime's DOJ-FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago ???

 

Yesterday's application to the Supreme Court by Trump's lawyers is limited to an issue of federal appellate court jurisdiction over part of an interim order issued by the U.S. District Court in the Trump team's case seeking protection from the bulldozer tactics of the FBI and DOJ during the early August raid on former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago

Trump attorneys decided to go to the Supreme Court over the FBI's armed search of Trump's residence, and the seizure of over 11,000 pages of documents at Mar-a-Lago  ---  Trump's legal team wants the top court in the country to intervene in the current litigation over various categories of sensitive documents that the F.B.I. seized from Trump's Florida estate, asserting that an intermediate appellate court lacked jurisdiction to remove any documents from the federal district court's special master that was appointed to review the all the seized material

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas handles emergency appeals emanating from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, so the instant application by Trump's attorneys was submitted to him  ---  many social-media commenters expressed concern about Justice Thomas' potential involvement in the case, and many have called for him to recuse himself from the matter.  ---  however, no action will be taken by Justice Thomas before the DOJ has filed a reply, which is due by next Tuesday

In a related matter in the case not directly involved with the Trump team's application to the U.S. Supreme Court,  DOJ papers, unsealed by U.S. District Court Judge Cannon in the case below, contained admissions that the FBI might have taken "several boxes" of privileged documents that were at Mar-a-Lago  ---  including papers from Trump attorneys on various matters  

Trump's lawyers made a very unusual and limited application for relief to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.  The limited application for special review of an order of the 11th Circuit Court of Apppeals is currently pending before Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and responding papers are due from the U.S. DOJ by Tuesday.

The very technical application to the U.S. Supreme Court indicated the Trump team's belief that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, was not authorized to stay certain aspects of U.S. District Court Judge Cannon's order appointing a special master to review all materials that the F.B.I. had seized in its search of Mr. Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago.  According to Trump's lawyers filing with the Supreme Court  ---  “....  The 11th Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review the special master order, which authorized the review of all materials seized from President Trump’s residence, including documents bearing classification markings....” 

In spite of the very narrow application for relief from the Supreme Court by Trump's lawyers, the very same lawyers indicated to the high court that larger issues were in play. “The unprecedented circumstances presented by this case — an investigation of the 45th president of the United States by the administration of his political rival and successor — compelled the district court to acknowledge the significant need for enhanced vigilance and to order the appointment of a special master to ensure fairness, transparency and maintenance of the public trust.”  

Furthermore, the instant application to the Supreme Court mentioned in passing that  ---  “....  President Trump was still the president of the United States when any documents bearing classification markings were delivered to his residence in Palm Beach, Fla....  At that time, he was the commander in chief of the United States. As such, his authority to classify or declassify information bearing on national security flowed from this constitutional investment of power in the president.”  However, the intermediate appellate court did address that particular issue in its order as follows: a panel of the 11th CIruit Court of Appeals had determined that whether Trump had declassified any of the documents  marked "classified" or not was "irrelevant" to the 11th Circuit Court's consideration of the issues.....

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