Florida District Judge Eileen Cannon has ruled that the Justice Department can release special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case.
Cannon denied a motion by President-elect Donald Trump’s former co-defendants who sought to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the election interference case.
[image or embed] — NPR (@npr.org) January 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
From NPR:
The DOJ has been fighting in court about whether it is allowed to publicly release a final report from Smith about his cases against Trump.
Such a report is an obligatory part of the special counsel’s work, and may be the last chance for prosecutors to explain their decisions after they dropped the federal cases against Trump after he won the election.
Trump was charged with election interference in Washington, D.C., and with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and refusing to return them to the FBI.
The Justice Department agreed withhold volume two of its report, regarding the classified documents case, to avoid interfering with an ongoing case against two other defendants who worked for Trump at Mar-a-Lago. But it wants to release the first volume, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election. I fully expect Trump’s lawyers to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the report’s release.
BREAKING: Judge Cannon will not seek to block release of the Jan. 6 volume of Jack Smith’s report.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/cannon-doj… [image or embed] — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) January 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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