The Supreme Court has told the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enter a response to former President Donald Trump after he asked the nation’s top court to vacate a partial stay against him in the Mar-a-Lago records case.
Justice Clarence Thomas directed DOJ lawyers to respond to Trump by 5 p.m. on Oct. 11.
Trump asked the Supreme Court to vacate a partial stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The partial stay blocked U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, serving as a special master in the case, and Trump lawyers from viewing the records with classified markings that were seized by FBI agents from Trump’s Florida home in August. Additionally, the ruling enabled the government to resume using those records in its criminal investigation into Trump….