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circuit didn t have the jurisdiction to act when it did. and now they want the supreme court to step in. notably, this request from trump s team goes directly to justice clarence thomas. but that is actually because he oversees all petitions that come in from the 11th circuit. it is likely here that justice thomas will refer this to the full court to decide this issue. but anderson, we have seen trump appeal to the supreme court several times in the next few years, with little success. it was just earlier this year that the justices allowed the january 6th select committee to gain access to the white house record, notably justice thomas dissented from that. and back in 2020, they ruled that they could not block his financial documents from prosecutors in new york. so this was filed as an emergency order, the justices could potentially rule pretty quickly after the doj response to this early next week on tuesday. what does it mean for the justice departments investigat ....
Team, they are not asking the supreme court to stop the doj from using these 100 classified documents in the criminal investigation. so the doj s probe should continue as normal here, while the emergency request is considered. even if the doj were to lose this at the supreme court, they really would not be affected, because trump s request only goes to the special master getting access to these documents. and so trump s team is really asking for very limited relief,. very narrow technical and procedural grounds here, but if past is prologue, it s likely that the supreme court will not step here. it s not like they didn t disturb a lower court finding earlier this year, when trump did in fact have to hand over his white house records. we will see what happens, they could come back very quickly. thank you very much. joining us now a senior supreme court analyst, also cnn contributor for the former nixon white house counsel john dean. and republican strategist dave urban, who is a cnn p ....