Court Asked To Overturn Injunction Blocking Release Of Jack Smith’s Classified Docs Report - Tampa Free Press

Court Asked To Overturn Injunction Blocking Release Of Jack Smith’s Classified Docs Report - Tampa Free Press

Government watchdog group American Oversight asked a federal appeals court on July 27 to overturn a lower court ruling that prevents the public release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his classified documents investigation into Donald Trump. In a reply brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the […] Court Asked To Overturn Injunction Blocking Release Of Jack Smith’s Classified Docs Report

Backlash surges over Trump judge's order to hide secret DOJ files

A jurist appointed by President Donald Trump to protect him, Florida’s Judge Aileen Cannon, has been described as a “partisan hack” and blasted by House Democrats. Now she is facing a new challenge: Calls to release a report by former special counsel Jack Smith that she has worked to suppress.“A public advocacy group is urging a federal court of appeals to use any means available and necessary to unseal the second volume of former special counse…

‘Not how a just system works’: Transparency group asks 11th Circuit to be ‘exceptional’ and overrule Cannon on buried Mar-a-Lago report even if ‘propriety’ argument fails

Left: Then-special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of then-former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File). Center: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida). Right: Donald Trump speaks to...

Eleventh Circuit Asked to Order Release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Report

ATLANTA—The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed its reply brief yesterday in consolidated appeals seeking public access to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. The filing marks the close of briefing and asks the Eleventh Circuit to reverse the district court’s orders suppressing the report and to direct that a redacted version be made public as part of the court record. The following can be attributed to Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: “The Special Counsel’s report concerns allegations of grave misconduct by President Trump and should be released to the public. Every day that the report stays under seal deprives the American public of the information necessary to judge for themselves the character and fitness of the nation’s highest official. The Eleventh Circuit should reverse Judge Cannon’s orders that are keeping the report secret and direct that it be made public as soon as possible.” Read today’s brief here.  Read more about the case here. For more information, contact: Gabriel Tyler, gabriel.tyler@knightcolumbia.org