The Justice Division has requested a federal appeals courtroom to raise a choose’s order blocking legal investigators from accessing about 100 paperwork with nationwide safety classification markings recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound final month.

In a submitting with the eleventh Circuit Court docket of Appeals in Atlanta, prosecutors stated the federal government is going through irreparable hurt on account of U.S. District Court docket Decide Aileen Cannon’s ruling placing the doubtless extremely delicate information off-limits to the investigative crew till an out of doors skilled conducts a assessment of them and considers Trump’s objections to their seizure.

“The courtroom’s order hamstrings that investigation and locations the FBI and Division of Justice … below a Damoclean menace of contempt,” DOJ attorneys stated of their 29-page submitting, including, “It additionally irreparably harms the federal government by enjoining important steps of an ongoing legal investigation and needlessly compelling disclosure of extremely delicate information, together with to [Trump’s] counsel.”