Supreme Court rebuffs Trump request to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents dispute – By Melissa Quinn & Robert Legare (CBS News) / Oct 13, 2022
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a request from former President Donald Trump to allow the independent arbiter vetting the documents seized from his South Florida residence access to a batch of roughly 100 documents with classification markings retrieved in the search.
The order from the high court keeps the subset of records off-limits to the arbiter, or special master, who is reviewing the more than 11,000 documents that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago. There were no noted dissent.
The decision came in response to an emergency request from Trump to allow the special master to examine the sensitive documents. The former president asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the legal fight over his handling of sensitive government records after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month allowed federal investigators to regain access to the 103 records marked classified.
The unanimous three-judge panel — two of the judges were appointed by Trump and one by former President Barack Obama — also limited the scope of the review by the special master and said the subset of sensitive materials must be kept separate from the examination of the roughly 11,000 records seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach resort
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