Trump urges appeals court to keep shielding records from Justice Department
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Washington — Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to turn down a request from the Justice Department to 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."
"This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided," James Trusty and Christopher Kise, Trump's lawyers, wrote in their response. "In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records."
In their 40-page filing, Trump's lawyers told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that the FBI's seizure of documents from Trump's South Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, presents "extraordinary circumstances that warrant review by a neutral third party," and said the Justice Department has not proven that the documents at the crux of its request to the appeals court are classified.
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