In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
According to legal analyst Glenn Kirschner on Friday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is "about to do Donald Trump another solid" by potentially helping the president-elect stop the release of details about his mishandled classified documents case to Congress.
On the second day of his presidency, Donald Trump secured yet another victory from his ally Judge Aileen Cannon.
Judge Aileen Cannon has devoted the past few weeks to striving to ensure that special counsel Jack Smith’s two-volume report on Donald Trump’s criminal activities would not see the light of day. Despite Cannon’s best efforts,
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a harsh order halting the release of the special counsel's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents The post ‘No valid justification’: Cannon slams DOJ’s ‘urgent desire’ to release Jack Smith’s full Trump report based on a ‘non-existent historical practice’ first appeared on Law & Crime.
Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.
U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon has denied a request by the Department of Justice to share former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents report with Congress. The DOJ under outgoing president Joe Biden had requested that the second volume of Smith's report be shared with lawmakers,
Attorney General Merrick Garland wants to send special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s classified documents case to select members of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred the Justice Department from sending the report to the heads of the House and Senate judiciary committees.
The second part concerned the probe of Trump’s handling of classified information after he left office in 2021 and his alleged efforts to obstruct US officials trying to get those documents back.
The DOJ is trying to keep Donald Trump from using a claim of presidential immunity to block the release of Jack Smith's final report on his classified documents case.