On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon rejected a motion to extend her injunction, which sought to block the Justice Department from releasing Jack Smith’s January 6 report on Trump.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland spent the weekend fighting to release Jack Smith’s final report after Judge Cannon’s temporary injunction blocking its release expired on Monday evening.
Last Thursday, a federal appeals court denied President Trump’s request to prevent the release of Jack Smith’s report.
On Saturday, Jack Smith resigned from the Justice Department.
Judge Cannon permitted the DOJ to release the January 6 volume of the report but barred the classified documents volume from being shared with Congress.
Over the weekend, the Justice Department stated that the January 6 volume of Jack Smith’s report does not include any information about the classified documents case.
However, this claim is false. In a motion filed over the weekend, the Justice Department acknowledged that the January 6 volume of the report (DC case with Judge Chutkan) references the classified documents case (Florida case with Judge Cannon).
Last Wednesday, President Trump’s lawyers argued in a court filing that releasing Jack Smith’s report would disrupt his transition to the White House.
“The report is nothing less than another attempted political hit job whose sole purpose is to disrupt the presidential transition and undermine President Trump’s exercise of executive power,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in an amicus brief, according to ABC News.
“The Final Report goes into more detail about the alleged crimes President Trump and others supposedly committed and involves evidence that was never released to the public–indeed, evidence that could not be released, such as those involving official acts,” the filing said, the outlet reported.
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