Judge Cannon ruling may not be 'the last word' on Jack Smith’s report: WSJ

Judge Cannon ruling may not be 'the last word' on Jack Smith’s report: WSJ

Before former President Joe Biden left office, then-special counsel Jack Smith delivered a final report on his federal cases against Donald Trump: the election interference case, and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The election interference part was publicly released, but the documents part went unreleased. And on Monday, February 23, Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee assigned to the documents case — ruled that Smith's classifi…

Judge Cannon orders Justice Department to keep Jack Smith’s Volume II report under wraps

A federal judge has permanently blocked the release of Volume II of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report, the volume described as focusing on President Donald Trump’s handling of classified materials after his first term in office. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request on Monday, stopping a planned Tuesday release and barring the Justice Department from sharing the report’s contents outside the department. A court tells…