The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has ruled that Jack Smith's special prosecutor report can be publicly released, reversing the completely incoherent ruling from Trump's concierge judge Aileen Cannon prohibiting the release of the report.
The injunction stands for another 3 days, which is enough time to appeal to the Supreme Court, but I expect it to come out in a few days:
A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations he conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a brief and unsigned order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, rejected an emergency request from Mr. Trump’s legal team to stop the report from coming out.
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Both sections of Mr. Smith’s two-volume report remain for the moment under an injunction put in place this week by a lower-court judge in Florida that is temporarily blocking their release.
The Justice Department has already said that it intends to hold off on releasing the volume that concerns the case in Florida in which Mr. Trump was accused of mishandling classified documents after he left office.
They are holding off on that one, which I would argue would be the more interesting report, because there are still court cases against other defendants.
But the department has said that it wants to release the other volume, which details Mr. Smith’s decisions in the case he filed in Washington accusing Mr. Trump of seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
In its order on Thursday night, the appeals court left the injunction in place but said that the Justice Department could take further action seeking to appeal it. Still, the injunction, which was issued by Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who oversaw the classified documents case, is scheduled to last only another three days.
Well, I guess historians will find this interesting.
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