(CNN)
The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena, issued this summer, ordering him to turn over documents marked classified, two sources familiar with the case told CNN. affair.
The request comes after Trump's legal team searched four locations just before Thanksgiving and found two classified-marked documents in a storage facility in Florida.
Trump's team turned those two documents over to the FBI and told a federal judge in Washington that they believed the former president was serving the six-month subpoena.
Trump team finds two documents with classified marks in Florida
However, the Justice Department disagreed.
And, in an escalation of the case last week, prosecutors told Judge Beryl Howell in Washington City District Court, who oversees federal grand jury proceedings there, that the searches were unsatisfactory.
Contempt proceedings against Howell are reserved.
The move adds to the pressure on Trump as he faces possible criminal liability in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the Mar-a-Lago documents.
It also adds another chapter to the fight federal officials are waging to recover government records, especially those containing national security secrets, from Trump after he ended his administration.
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