Trump appeals the Mar-a-Lago document search and seizure to the Supreme Court.

Trump appeals the Mar-a-Lago document search and seizure to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday :

former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to reflect on the controversy surrounding classified documents taken by the FBI this summer from his home in Mar-a-Lago.

The former President's emergency request to the Supreme Court is the latest instance in which he tried to engage judges in inquiries involving him at a time when the impartiality of the Supreme Court in politically sensitive cases was under close scrutiny.

Trump specifically asked the court to ensure that the special master's review included more than 100 confidential documents. 

The former president claimed that as a former leader

he had the right to possess some government documents, including those containing some of the nation's most sensitive secrets. 

If the application is granted

this may assist the former President's legal efforts to challenge the inspection.

However, Trump does not ask the Justice Department to use the records in its criminal investigation into how paperwork from the White House was handled incorrectly.

The Justice Department was granted until 5 p.m. on Tuesday

October 11 :

to respond to Justice Clarence Thomas, who received Trump's request because he oversaw litigation arising from the Circuit Court hearing the appeal of the Special Main Order.

It is not clear whether granting access to the confidential records of Mr. Al-Sayed, a third-party lawyer charged with evaluating evidence and disposing of privileged documents, would jeopardize the criminal investigation. It is also unclear to what extent

the Supreme Court accepts Trump's objections, which are often based on technical disagreements over whether the Court of Appeals has the right to exclude 100 papers from review.

Late last year:

• Trump's request for judges

• Stop handing over White House records

• To congressional investigators who will begin work on January 6, 2021.

• The Supreme Court rejected the application.

After the 11th U.S.

 Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Justice Department and declared that the department's criminal investigation into classified papers may continue

The Supreme Court received an emergency motion from Trump.

A Florida court judge who granted Trump's request for a third-party review of the documents found during the Mar-a-Lago search suspended the investigation's use of records. Currently, the Court of Appeal is discussing whether to overturn the remaining portions of the Special Main Order.

A new report revealed that Trump

had personally mobilized a collection of documents returned from Mar-a-Lago

The Washington Post reported Monday that the Department of National Archives and Records received a collection of papers that former President Donald Trump personally packed and returned in January.

According to the news source

Trump also instructed his attorney to claim that the records agency had received all the required documents. She stated that counsel refused to do so because he was unsure of her validity.

The newspaper cited unidentified sources.

The claim that Trump personally chose the records to return him from Mar.

• The Post previously said Trump packed the 15 boxes under strict confidentiality

• keeping the operation out of the eyes of his top aides.

• He was keen to emphasize that all documents had been returned after their delivery

• forcing a statement to that effect, according to The Post.

However, according to the article

In February, his attorney Alex Cannon declined to sign it.

The report also stated that Cannon was not sure that there were no other records in Mar-a-Lago.

1. A few months later, Christina Pope
2. another Trump lawyer
3. put her name in a similar announcement that

claimed no additional records 

1. needed to be returned despite
2. the "diligent search" 
3. for Mar-a-Lago.

However, as investigators considered Trump's papers and discovered at least 100 sensitive records, the National Archives asked the Justice Department to open an investigation. This prompted the FBI to raid Mar Lago in August.

Several documents

• including some with high levels of classification

• were discovered and were not returned

• in the previous delivery during that process.

A Trump spokeswoman responded to the article from The Post by criticizing the post rather than addressing its main points.

The representative claimed that the Post was "the political microphone of leakers and liars buried deep in the guts of the United States Government."