The U.S. government asked a court this Friday to suspend the function of the independent expert examining the 100 confidential documents the FBI seized during the search of former President Donald Trump’s residence.
In a pleading filed with the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice, led by Democrat Merrick Garland, demanded that the order issued by a lower-ranking judge lead to the appointment of the independent expert be revoked.
In its memorandum, the Government believes that its arguments of opposition to the appointment of the expert are well founded and the decision of the judge against him is erroneous.
This move by the Department of Justice comes the day after the US Supreme Court rejected an urgent request from Trump to intervene in the case.
In a brief resolution, the highest court in the United States rejected the former president’s request to support the appointment of the independent expert.
The expert’s function is to examine the hundred documents marked as classified and which were among the more than 11,000 seized on August 8 by the FBI during the search of Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
During the search, the FBI found confidential and secret documents that Trump allegedly took with him when he left the White House in January 2021.
If the Supreme Court had responded positively, the door would have opened for Trump’s defense to review those documents and argue that they were out of bounds for the prosecution in a possible criminal case.
