Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress.

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.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see the light of day.

Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.

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,