BREAKING: Donald Trump's lawyers urged an appeals court to keep shielding documents seized at Mar-a-Lago from the Department of Justice.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to turn down ato allow investigators to regain access to a tranche of roughly 100 documents with classification markings seized from his Florida estate, claiming the government has"criminalized a document dispute" and is objecting to a"transparent process that simply provides much-needed oversight.
"Ultimately, any brief delay to the criminal investigation will not irreparably harm the government," Trusty and Kise wrote."The injunction does not preclude the Government from conducting a criminal investigation, it merely delays the investigation for a short period while a neutral third party reviews the documents in question.
By blocking the review and use of the records for investigative purposes, the ruling"impedes the government's efforts to protect the nation's security," Justice Department lawyers wrote in their 29-page filing.
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