A judge in Florida Blocks the release of a report on the Trump cases

The Second Volume of the DOJ’s Special Counsel Report on the 2024 Presidential Election Case and the Case against Two Long-Winged Trump aides

The Justice Department wants to publicly release only part of its final report on special counsel Jack Smith’s cases against President-elect Donald Trump.

After Trump won the 2024 election, the Justice Department dropped him from its appeal. But it continued the appellate case for the other two defendants, who raised concern that they would be prejudiced if Smith’s final report is published while they still face the threat of a trial.

But special counsels are also obligated to file a report on their actions with the attorney general when they finish their work. The current attorney general, Merrick Garland, has pledged to make most of those reports public.

Trump has also argued the special counsel was appointed unlawfully and that any public report would be legally invalid and hurt his transition into the White House.

He called Smith a mean, nasty guy and praised Cannon’s decision to throw out the documents case at the press conference.

If members of the Senate and House judiciary committees request it, the second volume of the report will only be made available to them. The DOJ is pursuing an appeal against two long-winded Trump aides, while the classified documents case is still ongoing.

There was a request from Trump’s legal team for a delay in the sentencing of him, which was denied by the New York state appeals court.

A state jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of hiding a payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump’s legal team had sought to delay or scrap the entire case, arguing the president-elect was immune from prosecution.

The DOJ Response to a Report of the 11th Circuit Investigating the Bipartisanship of the Election Interference Case in the U.S.

But the DOJ disagreed with that action, saying there was no need for the court to intervene, and also protesting the attempt to block the report’s first volume, on the election interference case.

The “limited disclosure” to certain lawmakers “will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership apprised of a significant matter within the Department while safeguarding defendants’ interests.”

“To avoid any risk of prejudice to defendants Nauta and De Oliveira, the Attorney General has determined, at the recommendation of the Special Counsel, that he will not publicly release Volume Two as long as defendants’ criminal proceedings remain pending,” DOJ lawyers wrote in the filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.