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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eric Tucker

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate.

The Trump team asked the court to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search.

A three-judge panel last month limited the special master's review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents.

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