This should be a no brainer as all the legal precedent is that the current administration can decide what is classified. These days though that doesn’t seem to matter.
...there wasn't much of a legal reason for her to rule in favor of a special master in the first place...
Is this reported anywhere other than "boingboing.net" and a liberal fanfic account called "Mueller, She Wrote"?
Not asking the court to block the DoJ's review of the classified material but that the special master should review them also. (WHY?) The appeal didn't even say this would cause irreparable harm to him. The court wouldn't grant an emergency appeal unless there is great harm, but it's Thomas. Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Review of Mar-a-Lago Records - The New York Times (nytimes.com) WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in the litigation over sensitive documents that the F.B.I. seized from his Florida estate, saying that an appeals court had lacked jurisdiction to remove them from a special master’s review. But Mr. Trump’s lawyers did not ask the Supreme Court to overturn the most important part of the appeals court’s intervention: its decision to free the Justice Department to continue using documents with classification markings in its criminal investigation of Mr. Trump’s handling of government records. The new filing was technical, saying that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, had not been authorized to stay aspects of a judge’s order appointing a special master to review all materials that the F.B.I. had seized in its search of Mr. Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago. “The 11th Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review the special master order, which authorized the review of all materials seized from President Trump’s residence, including documents bearing classification markings,” the application said.
Would love it if this was a clever side trap the FBI hoped to spring on Thomas but I can’t give them the credit for something so devious.
What the FBI took from Trump, according to an accidentally unsealed list https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/trump-fbi-search-documents/ looks like a lot of folks here are going to be pretty disappointed
Yep. It’s probably nothing. That’s why he hasn’t been fighting the fbi reviewing the documents at all.
Wow, looks like all of them have been declassified! This should be very exciting news to lot of folks.
It's a subset the DoJ believes the special master should screen for privilege. Very Exciting stuff. "The list includes two batches of documents, about five dozen in total. What’s included are about 520 pages of documents that the government believed should be screened for privilege by the special master assigned to the case. The government broke the documents into two groups. The first was material that related to Trump’s tenure as president, labeled Exhibit A. The second was material that appeared to be subject to attorney-client privilege. It’s marked Exhibit B."
Why would that disappoint anyone? None of those were the Top Secret SCI documents which are the ones most people agree are most concerning? Or did you mean that Trump supporters would be disappointed because only an idiot wouldn't have already returned those things?
Seems pretty open and shut. Despite the crimes Trump has committed and admitted to, he has essentially paved the way, while appointing these judges, for himself to never be held accountable for any of them. He's appealing this to the Supreme Court, knowing that they'll rule in his favor, and then there's nothing that can be done about it. Just your friendly reminder, so that none of you are that upset when nobody has the balls, or apparently, after the legal ability has been neutered away, to be able to indict him. Of course, certain players here will come in and gloat about it. How they were right all along. How "they got the b*stard now!", Etc. You already know which ones. The irony of it all is that, in true Trump fashion, he has done the exact thing that he is accusing others of doing - weaponizing the judicial system, based on political affiliation. So while this man has been crying witch hunt all along, he is finally reaching his magnum opus - selling national secrets to the highest bidder, while Pavloving 40% of the country into believing that he never could do something that he is actually doing, all the while, preventing the actual witch hunt. It's actually a well played move by Trump, for the most part. And there you go - I just save you from reading the next 40 pages of this thread.
clickbait nonsense. Don’t be lazy. Unless you mean trumper losers will be mad that the whole priv hubbub appears to be nonsense. This is just the priv team docs, and they largely aren’t privileged it seems.
If that were to happen, I wouldn’t be shocked if we saw leaks on what he actually did giving the dems motivation to pack the courts. BUT, it appears what’s being appealed is a nothing burger. As of now.
