Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday rejected a motion to extend her injunction to block the Justice Department’s release of Jack Smith’s January 6 volume of report on Trump.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland fought to release Jack Smith’s final report all weekend after Judge Cannon’s temporary injunction blocking the release expired on Monday evening.
Last Thursday, a federal appeals court rejected President Trump’s request to block the release of Jack Smith’s report.
Jack Smith resigned from the Justice Department on Saturday.
Judge Cannon allowed the DOJ to release the January 6 volume of the report but blocked the classified documents volume from being shared with Congress.
The Justice Department over the weekend said the January 6 volume of Jack Smith’s report does NOT include information about the classified documents case.
However, this is not true. In a motion filed over the weekend, the Justice Department admitted the January 6 volume of the report (DC case with Judge Chutkan) references the classified documents case (Florida case with Judge Cannon).
BREAKING: Judge Cannon denies motion to continue blocking release of J6 volume of report, sets hearing on classified docs volume of report. pic.twitter.com/HGYPrrnxo2
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) January 13, 2025
President Trump’s lawyers in a court filing last Wednesday argued the release of 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.
