And that, of course, is something that Trump is opposing. Last week, the department said in court papers that the special master's review is delaying their investigation and had asked the 11th Circuit to fast-track that appeal. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is still appealing the appointment of the special master. And remember, that investigation is looking into possible mishandling of national defense information or the concealing or destruction of government records. As I said earlier, Trump's attorneys aren't asking the Supreme Court to stop federal investigators from using these classified materials in their investigation. So what does Trump's appeal now mean for the Justice Department's investigation? And it also said the Justice Department did not have to provide those classified materials to the special master. It temporarily blocked the lower court's order and cleared the way for the FBI to use the classified documents in its investigation again. A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with the Justice Department. It wanted two things in that appeal - it wanted the FBI to be allowed to use these 100 classified documents or so in their investigation, and the Justice Department didn't want to have to hand over the classified documents to the special master. The Justice Department appealed part of that ruling. You may recall that in early September, a judge in Florida - who, as Steve noted, was appointed by Trump - granted a request by Trump to appoint a special master to review all of these documents seized from Mar-a-Lago. LUCAS: There has been a lot of back-and-forth since the FBI took these documents from Mar-a-Lago back in early August. MARTINEZ: This has been an ongoing legal saga, Ryan. But it was critical, Trump's attorney said, that these classified documents be reviewed by the special master for purposes of transparency and public confidence, they said. They are not asking the Supreme Court to stop the Justice Department from using those classified documents in their investigation. So in other words, they want the special master's review to include the roughly 100 classified documents that the FBI collected in August from Mar-a-Lago. They want the Supreme Court to vacate the 11th Circuit's stay, limiting the scope of the special master's review. RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Yeah, it is a pretty limited ask. So what exactly are Trump's attorneys asking for? Ryan, it sounds like a very narrow appeal. MARTINEZ: NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas is here. Trump, you'll recall, appointed the district judge in the case, also appointed two of three judges that partly overruled her, and also appointed three justices on the high court that he would like to overrule them. Trump's attorneys filed their appeal late yesterday, asking the court to review one part of the lower court rulings over the papers recovered from Trump's home. Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the review of documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
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