In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see the light of day.

Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a harsh order halting the release of the special counsel's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents The post ‘No valid justification’: Cannon slams DOJ’s ‘urgent desire’ to release Jack Smith’s full Trump report based on a ‘non-existent historical practice’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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.