Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least for now. “At the end of the day, what’s the urgency of ...

Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress.

In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

The Florida-based judge did not immediately rule on whether the Justice Department can move forward with its plan to show the report to a handful of lawmakers.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the Justice Department from sharing with four top lawmakers the volume of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report reviewing his investigation into

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a harsh order halting the release of the special counsel's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents The post ‘No valid justification’: Cannon slams DOJ’s ‘urgent desire’ to release Jack Smith’s full Trump report based on a ‘non-existent historical practice’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

According to legal analyst Glenn Kirschner on Friday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is "about to do Donald Trump another solid" by potentially helping the president-elect stop the release of details about his mishandled classified documents case to ...

The Trump appointee said the DOJ couldn’t justify “the purportedly urgent desire” to share information about the ongoing criminal case.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

Now the less good news: Judge Aileen Cannon, who had temporarily blocked the release of Vol. 1 of Smith’s report, has made it less likely that Vol. 2 will be released to the leadership of the House and Senate judiciary committees by scheduling a hearing on the matter for Friday.

Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least ...