Merrick Garland Fights to Release Jack Smith’s Final Report After Judge Cannon Blocks Release
US Attorney General Merrick Garland is fighting to release Jack Smith’s final report after Judge Cannon issued a temporary injunction blocking it from public view.
On Tuesday Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked Jack Smith’s report on his lawfare investigation into President Trump.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland previously said he would release Jack Smith’s final report on Trump.
Judge Cannon’s temporary injunction lasts until three days after a federal appeals court issues a ruling on a pending motion to block Jack Smith’s report in a case involving other defendants in the classified documents case.
Lawyers for Trump’s co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera asked Judge Cannon in a Monday night filing to block Jack Smith’s report based on her previous ruling that the special counsel’s appointment was unconstitutional.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland is now blocked from releasing, sharing, or transmitting” Jack Smith’s final report – “or any drafts of such Report outside the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in the Final Report or in drafts thereof.”
Merrick Garland said there is no legal basis for Cannon’s injunction.
NBC News reported:
Special counsel Jack Smith has turned over to Attorney General Merrick Garland the completed final report on his two investigations that resulted in felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump, part of which Garland intends to make public, the Justice Department said in a filing Wednesday.
The filing — which was made by the Justice Department separate from Smith’s office — came after Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of the report on Trump’s handling of classified documents. Cannon is the Florida judge who tossed the charges against Trump, siding with an argument that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
But the Justice Department said Wednesday there was “neither any need nor legal basis for an injunction” on the release of the report because Garland intends to give Congress only volume one — which focuses on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — “in furtherance of the public interest in informing a co-equal branch and the public regarding this significant matter.”
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