(Washington) The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday rejected an appeal by Donald Trump, who had asked him to intervene in the file of the documents seized this summer at his Florida residence.
Posted at 4:00 p.m.
As is customary, the high court, which was profoundly overhauled by the former Republican president, did not justify its decision.
Although it has six out of nine conservative magistrates, including three appointed by Donald Trump, it has already inflicted setbacks on him, in particular by refusing to support him in his post-election crusade.
On October 4, the billionaire had sent him an urgent appeal so that none of the 11,000 documents seized at his residence in Mar-a-Lago escaped the independent expert responsible for reviewing them.
He challenged a decision of a court of appeal which prevents this expert from having access to a hundred documents classified as confidential.
When he left power in January 2021, Donald Trump took entire boxes of documents. However, a law of 1978 obliges any American president to transmit all of his emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.
On August 8, federal police agents carried out an unprecedented search of his home on the basis of a warrant for “withholding classified documents” and “obstructing a federal investigation”, and seized around thirty boxes.
Since then, Donald Trump, who is contemplating the idea of running for a new term in 2024, says he is “persecuted” politically and ensures that the documents seized are personal or declassified.
He is also being sued in civil proceedings by the New York courts, which accuses him of having manipulated the value of his group’s assets to obtain more advantageous loans or reduce his taxes.