Trump Asks Appeals Court to Keep Classified Files From DOJ (1)

Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court to uphold an order that temporarily bars Justice Department investigators from using about 100 documents with classified markings in a criminal probe of the former president.

The records -- some bearing top secret markings -- should remain off limits to investigators while a neutral third party reviews the entire trove of roughly 11,000 documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last month, his lawyers said in a filing Tuesday in the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The District Court did not err in temporarily enjoining the Government’s review and use of records bearing ...