On Tuesday, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Trump’s two prosecutions.
The ruling from Cannon comes after Trump’s two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case asked her to bar the release of both sections of Smith’s report, including that dealing with Trump’s election interference case.
It’s not clear the extent of Cannon’s purview over the case, as a prior ruling from her tossing the case has been appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Cannon said her ruling blocking any transmittance of the report would remain in effect until three days after any appeals court ruling “unless the 11th Circuit rules otherwise.”
The Florida-based federal judge said the ruling would “preserve the status quo” and “prevent irreparable harm.”
Smith’s office declined to comment, but in earlier court filings said they would respond to the substance of Trump’s request by 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
Attached to the filings is a letter from Trump’s legal team to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to fire Smith and leave the decision of whether to release the report to a Trump-appointed attorney general.
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I hope Jack Smith is ready to retire.
He’s done!
Do you really think the DOJ won’t leak the report to their pals in the media? Garland and the DOJ is a no integrity outfit now days.
Can’t these crooked lawyers be sued and having criminal charges brought against for bringing false charges against Trump and other republicans. You see people who have been in jail, released due to mistakes being made by prosecutors. These democrats charge people and put them in jail because they are republicans, and nothing is done to these democrat prosecutors. I never heard of a prosecutor telling juries that they (jurists) can make up their own charges and add them to the prosecutors’ charges. Since when. Charges are the prosecutor’s job and only the prosecutor’s job. Not one lawyer association has said anything about that charge given to the jurists by the prosecutor not even the judge of the trial. The judge over this trial should be removed just for that gift to the prosecutor.