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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 di ....
Oversees all petitions that come in from the 11th circuit and it s likely here that justice thomas will refer this to the full court to decide this issue. but, you know, anderson, we ve seen trump appeal to the supreme court several times in the last few years with little success. you know, it was just earlier this year that the justices allowed the january 6th select committee to get access to trump s white house records, notably justice thomas dissented from that. back in 2020 they ruled that he couldn t block his financial documents from prosecutors in new york. this was filed as an emergency order. the justices could potentially rule pretty quickly after the doj responds to this early next week on tuesday. what does it mean for the justice department s investigation, the handling of the documents? it won t have any effect because notably trump s team are not asking the supreme court to stop the doj from using the 100 classified documents. doj s probe should continue as ....