The Supreme Court has rejected Trump's request to review the seized documents from the August 8th Mar-A-Lago raid. Trump proposed that a special master would review the documents to check if any confiscated material falls under attorney-client privilege. Attorney-client privilege is a legal privilege that allows confidentially to be kept between an attorney and a client.
According to Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University, "If federal investigators saw many privileged records, it could result in the current investigative team being disqualified and a new one being brought in." However, the rejection of his request "marked an additional setback in Trump’s efforts to slow down and delay the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into his potential mishandling of government documents" according to Time. Trump's original hopes were to try and control the court based on the fact that he had appointed 3 Supreme Court judges.
The Department of Justice will conduct a review on the documents and determine if there are other documents that were not found during the raid. However, former president Donald Trump has a long history of getting out of criminal allegations and prolonging investigations.
Sources:
https://time.com/6222281/trump-supreme-court-rejection-fbi-raid/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-will-attorney-client-privilege-affect-trump-records-probe-2022-09-05/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/politics/trump-supreme-court.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/supreme-court-denies-trump-bid-to-void-ruling-in-mar-a-lago-raid-documents-case.html
2 comments:
It's clear that Trump's presidency has gotten him an unfair privilege in this court case. Whether or not the Mar-A-Lago documents are classified, Trump's argument that he could declassify these documents with the simple statement that they are is a clear depiction of corruption in the federal government. Trump's request to review the documents had only been considered by a judge appointed by himself, and was denied due to clear unfair advantages. He should not be given permission to review these documents, as any other citizen wouldn't be. Well, I guess it seems inevitable that the former president would be caught illegitimate anyway.
It is unreasonable that Trump would ask to review these documents -- it seems more like a ploy to delay or slow down the investigation. It doesn't seem like Trump had much of a basis to even ask for the review in the first place. I think that if Trump's team had been allowed to review the documents, it would have further decreased public confidence in the justice system. So in many ways, even if Trump had an advantage, it was clear that his request was going to be denied.
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