The former Blackwater security guards charged with manslaughter in a shooting in Iraq want the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision that revived the stalled prosecution in Washington federal district court.

Lawyers for the guards filed a petition in the high court Friday under seal, according to court records in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A redacted public copy of the filing was not immediately available this afternoon.

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