Donald Trump tries to block the investigation against him in the Supreme Court

First modification: 05/10/2022 – 01:48

Donald Trump is determined to prevent an investigation against him at all costs. To do this, this Tuesday he appealed to the Supreme Court to intervene in the case of the documents seized by the FBI from his house in Mar-a-lago, Florida.

The intention of the former president is for the Supreme Court to issue an emergency order for an “impartial” third party to review the documents marked as “classified”, approximately one hundred of the more than 11,000 that the FBI seized from his residence -after the order of a federal appeals court – on August 8.

Record in which the FBI found classified and secret documents that Trump allegedly took with him when he left the White House in January 2021, following the storming of the Capitol and his accusations of electoral “fraud”.

“A third party should have access to the classified files to determine whether documents bearing classification marks are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are presidential or personal records,” Trump’s lawyers argued.

This appeal to the Supreme Court marks the escalation of tensions between the Department of Justice and Donald Trump, who has already openly acknowledged that he took documents from the White House to his residence.

Now, instead of denying it, Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he took the documents to his mansion when he was president because he had the power to “declassify” them. Something that the former president seconded in an interview with the Fox News network, with an openly conservative tendency.

“I could declassify all those documents just by thinking about it,” Trump argued in the televised interview.

The Supreme Court has a conservative majority

Now, one of the concerns is that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority by six to three. In fact, three of the judges were selected by Trump himself. However, the highest court in the country has previously unanimously rejected his efforts to block justice access to these documents.

And it is that Donald Trump lost the support of a large part of the Republicans after the actions of January 6, when an angry mob of his followers stormed the Capitol after one of his incendiary speeches, in which he insinuated electoral fraud.

A context in which experts, According to the newspaper ‘The New York Times’they see it difficult for this emergency request to go ahead.

With EFE and local media