[AmyLHowe] Trump asks justices to intervene in dispute over documents seized from his home
Former President Donald Trump came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, asking the justices to allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked as classified that the FBI seized from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. The 37-page filing is the latest chapter in the fallout from the search warrant executed at Trump’s home on Aug. 8, and the first time that Trump has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in what his lawyers describe as “essentially a document storage dispute.”
The Aug. 8 search of Trump’s home yielded 11,000 documents, including over 100 marked as “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.” In September, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review the documents, and she blocked the government from using any of the documents as part of a criminal investigation.
The Justice Department went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, asking that court to put Cannon’s orders on hold. In an unsigned opinion on Sept. 21, the court of appeals granted the government’s request. The 11th Circuit ruled that the Justice Department did not have to turn over the documents with classified markings to the special master, and that the department could continue using the documents in its investigation.
Trump is now asking the justices to reinstate the portion of Cannon’s order that required the government to turn over the documents marked as classified. “Any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a president’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice” and “impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the Special Master,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in their emergency request. Trump, however, did not ask the justices to bar the government from using those documents in a criminal investigation.
Trump contended that the court of appeals lacked the power to put Cannon’s order on hold because the Biden administration had not specifically appealed that order and because, in any event, it was not the kind of order that can be immediately appealed.
Even if the court of appeals did have the power to review Cannon’s order, Trump added, it should have allowed her ruling to stand. Alleging that Trump “had sole discretion to classify” documents generated during his presidency, he argued that Cannon properly referred the issue to a special master “to determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified.”
Trump’s request went to Justice Clarence Thomas, who handles emergency appeals from the 11th Circuit. Thomas could handle the request on his own or, as is more common in high-profile appeals, refer the request to the full court. A response from the Justice Department is due on Oct. 11.
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It promises to get interesting the 2 weeks before midterm elections start.
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BTW... as the article points out the DOJ/FBI IS HOLDING 10,900 PERSONAL DOCUMENTS it never should taken or held on to, under the granted search warrant.
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I thought that was to point of not being in The White House or other public venue requiring registration.
Imagine spending 7 hours on the golf course purposefully losing to Obama...and Obama knowing you were purposefully tanking and intentionally playing under his ability to rub it in.
We hate a bunch on lobbyists and policy purchasers with good reason because they are part of what is wrong with the current state of things - , but that would be a day of earned pay.
[Breitbart] Democrats on the Washington, DC, City Council have approved a plan that would allow foreign nationals, including illegal aliens, to vote in local elections.
On Tuesday, the D.C. City Council voted 12-1 to advance a bill that will allow foreign nationals, regardless of if they have visas or are illegally in the United States, to vote in local elections such as school board races and mayoral elections. another reason DC should NEVER be a State
“Our immigrant neighbors of all statuses participate, contribute and care about our community in our city,” D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen (D) said, according to the Hill. “They, like all DC residents, deserve a right to have a say in their government.”
Only Councilwoman Mary Cheh (D) voted against the bill, suggesting she would have supported it had provisions included a minor 30-day residency requirement for foreign nationals looking to register to vote.
“I asked this question of the committee as a whole: Could someone who took the bus from Texas, or was put on the bus from Texas, or wherever, and dropped off at the vice president’s property, and then remained in the District of Columbia for 30 days and was 18 years old — could that person then vote in our local elections? And the answer was yes,” Cheh said.
The D.C. City Council will now have to approve the plan in a final vote before the bill goes to Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser for approval.
In June, the New York State Supreme Court struck down a similar law passed by the New York City Council that sought to allow nearly a million foreign nationals the ability to vote in municipal elections.
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In June, the New York State Supreme Court struck down a similar law passed by the New York City Council that sought to allow nearly a million foreign nationals the ability to vote in municipal elections.
Latest news:
4-way illegal immigrant car crash reported in DC on the way to the polls.
86 confirmed dead.
Either way, now the LSD's want to turn over voting for US Officials, that govern us the US Citizens to NON-US Citizens here illegally, and owe NO allegiance to the USA?
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If "illegals" can vote then why can't foreigners with valid visas vote as well? Imagine the Russian Ambassador, and their staff, voting ...madness. Commercial travelers 'voting by mail' from overseas ... madness on steroids.
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