Trump's latest delay tactic over Mar-a-Lago documents may not work for him at the Supreme Court
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
The right-wing Supreme Court majority built by ex-President Donald Trump has ruled just as conservatives had hoped on politically charged cases on abortion, climate and religion. Yet it has been far less tolerant of his efforts to block congressional investigators’ access to presidential records as well as prosecutors’ access to tax records and of his spurious election fraud claims. So Trump’s latest appeal to the nine justices in the Mar-a-Lago documents furor – another apparent delaying tactic – may be a long shot and could even backfire.
Trump on Tuesday filed an emergency application to the court to step into his dispute with the Justice Department over documents marked classified that he hoarded at the resort in Florida.
Unlike his frequently more florid and fantastical legal gambits, this one is narrow and legally nuanced – far smaller than a possible broader attempt to test an ex-president’s scope to claim executive privilege or some kind of claim that the search on his home in August was illegal. Instead, Trump wants the court to ensure that more than 100 documents designated as classified are included in a review by a third-party official known as a “special master.”
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