A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to the disclosure of a highly anticipated report by Special Counsel Jack Smith into Donald Trump's actions. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, granted a temporary halt to the report's release, siding with Trump's legal team who argued it would be one-sided and prejudicial. The Justice Department's next steps remain unclear.
report on investigations into Donald Trump as an appeals court weighs a challenge to the disclosure of a much-anticipated document just days before the president-elect reclaims office. may represent a short-lived victory for Trump, but it’s nonetheless the latest instance of the Trump-appointed jurist taking action in the Republican’s favor. The halt followed to an emergency request Monday by defense lawyers to block the release of a report that they said would be one-sided and prejudicial.
Cannon’s order did not make a distinction between the two volumes, instead barring the release of any information from any report until three days after the matter is resolved by the Atlanta -based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, unless the court orders otherwise. Smith’s team abandoned both cases in November after Trump’s presidential victory, citing Justice Department policy that prohibits the federal prosecutions of sitting presidents., who was picked by Trump to serve as his deputy attorney general, urged )Garland in a letter made public late Monday to block the release of the report and to remove Smith from his position “promptly” — or defer the release of the report to the incoming attorney general.
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