Trump's legal team filed an emergency motion to prevent the release of a report by former Special Counsel Jack Smith in the documents case.
President-elect Donald Trump ’s legal team filed an emergency motion Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking to block former Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report on the case. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, threw out Smith’s prosecution of Trump in the so-called “documents” case, which was already riddled with procedural problems, last July.
She accepted the defense argument that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, since he was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was not a U.S. Attorney. Trump’s legal team argued that Smith therefore has no authority to issue a report, and that doing so would not only hurt Trump, but would also damage the remaining two defendants in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira.Despite this Court’s concluding that Smith is unconstitutionally appointed and funded, and despite ongoing proceedings against Defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, Special Counsel Smith, in defiance of this Court’s rulings, is determined to have the final word by pushing forward with issuing and transmitting a final report under 28 C.F.R. § 608(c) (the “Final Report”) which Attorney General Garland is certain to make immediately public. These Defendants will irreparably suffer harm as civilian casualties of the Government’s impermissible and contumacious utilization of political lawfare to include release of the unauthorized Report. The Final Report relies on materials to which Smith, as disqualified special counsel, is no longer entitled access — making his attempt to share such materials with the public highly improper.The Final Report promises to be a one-sided, slanted report, relying nearly exclusively on evidence presented to a grand jury and subject to all requisite protections—and which is known to Smith only as a result of his unconstitutional appointment—in order to serve a singular purpose: convincing the public that everyone Smith charged is guilty of the crimes charged
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