Trump, Aileen Cannon and Jack Smith
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 Congress.
"It's not clear to folks like me ... whether she has that jurisdiction," MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin said Tuesday.
Cannon’s ruling stated that Garland, the Department of Justice, Smith, and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” could not publish any part of the report until three days after the Eleventh Circuit ruled on the case.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Tuesday the Department of Justice can’t release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into whether President-elect Donald Trump unlawfully withheld White House documents, after Smith suggested the final report could come out later this week.
The DOJ argued that Judge Cannon cannot stop the government from releasing Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case to members of Congress The post Cannon ‘lacks the authority’ to halt release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents to Congress,
Cannon, who was appointed by Donald Trump, has blocked the release of a report into his two federal prosecutions
The ruling means the volume of Smith’s report on the 2020 election case could be released any time after midnight.
Cannon's work on Trump's case is "replete with examples of her astonishing bias," a former prosecutor told Salon
Cannon temporarily blocked the DOJ from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report to the public in an order on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into Donald Trump.
A former federal prosecutor appeared amused after Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon questioned why there was a rush to push out special counsel Jack Smith's report in his classified documents case,