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.
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.
U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon has denied a request by the Department of Justice to share former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents report with Congress. The DOJ under outgoing president Joe Biden had requested that the second volume of Smith's report be shared with lawmakers,
Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least ...
Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida stepped back on Monday from an earlier ruling that purported
Judge Aileen Cannon has devoted the past few weeks to striving to ensure that special counsel Jack Smith’s two-volume report on Donald Trump’s criminal activities would not see the light of day. Despite Cannon’s best efforts,
The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Judge Aileen Cannon has triggered outrage among legal experts for purporting to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's reports on the criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, given that she likely surrendered jurisdiction of the classified documents case when she dismissed it and the appeal went to the 11th Circuit.
On the second day of his presidency, Donald Trump secured yet another victory from his ally Judge Aileen Cannon.
The second part concerned the probe of Trump’s handling of classified information after he left office in 2021 and his alleged efforts to obstruct US officials trying to get those documents back.
The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.