jessica schneider on exactly what the former president s lawyers are asking for and perhaps significantly which justice they re asking. jessica, what more do we know about what the former president is seeking from the court? right now they ve filed an emergency request at the court, anderson, even though they ve waited two weeks after the 11th circuit ruled on this. now we re finding out that the justice department has one more week to file its response. trump s team here, they re asking for very limited relief. basically what they want is the special master to get access to these 100 classified documents that he s been blocked from reviewing ever since the 11th circuit ruled and crucially here, if the special master regained access, that would mean that trump s legal team would also get to see the classified documents. that s something they ve long been angling for. what trump s team is arguing, they say the 11th circuit didn t have the jurisdiction to act when it did. now
circuit didn t have the jurisdiction to act when it did. and now they want the supreme court to step in. notably, this request from trump s team goes directly to justice clarence thomas. but that is actually because he oversees all petitions that come in from the 11th circuit. it is likely here that justice thomas will refer this to the full court to decide this issue. but anderson, we have seen trump appeal to the supreme court several times in the next few years, with little success. it was just earlier this year that the justices allowed the january 6th select committee to gain access to the white house record, notably justice thomas dissented from that. and back in 2020, they ruled that they could not block his financial documents from prosecutors in new york. so this was filed as an emergency order, the justices could potentially rule pretty quickly after the doj response to this early next week on tuesday. what does it mean for the justice departments investigation, t
on this tuesday night. good evening everyone. i m ayman roy dean, in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump has tried almost everything to slow down the government s investigation into the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. now he s taking his course to the supreme court. today, trump made an emergency request, asking the court to overturn a lower court ruling that prevented the special master from revealing the roughly 100 classified documents taken during the search from his florida club back on august 8th. you may recall that the 11th circuit of appeals agreed with the justice department, which had argued that there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own special review of that records. trump s appeal was directed to justice clarence thomas because he oversees the 11th circuit court, and tonight the supreme court ask the doj to file its response to trump s request by 5 pm october 11th. just a short time ago, one legal expert reacted to trump