DOJ pushing to keep Trump from blocking release of classified docs report on immunity grounds

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24. There are no "cases" against

It's ONE CASE with MULTIPLE CHARGES.

And as a FYI - she is having her hearing THIS AFTERNOON -

Cannon holds hearing on Trump documents report as Democrats urge its release

January 17, 2025 at 12:03 p.m. EST Today at 12:03 p.m. EST

By Jeremy Roebuck and Perry Stein


FORT PIERCE, Florida — A federal judge on Friday will consider whether to block the Justice Department from sharing with key congressional leaders a report by special counsel Jack Smith on the classified documents investigation involving President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump’s lawyers want to keep Judiciary committee leaders from getting the report at least until Monday’s inauguration — and perhaps, as a result, for good.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has scheduled an afternoon hearing to weigh their arguments that prosecutors’ plans for a limited disclosure of Smith’s findings into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of efforts to retrieve them would undermine his presidential transition “and his ability to govern our nation going forward.”

The court battle comes after Cannon’s controversial decision last year to dismiss charges Smith’s office brought against Trump and two co-defendants over those allegations and just days after Attorney General Merrick Garland made public another portion of the special counsel’s report. That volume detailed what Smith described as Trump’s “unprecedented criminal effort” to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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And if they decide to NOT drop those charges and the 11th rules in their favor, it would go RIGHT BACK TO HER.

When she blocked release of BOTH REPORTS, the 11th Circuit DENIED the block of the J6 report, but did not rule on the Classified docs report. This is why you had this - https://www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-rejects-trump-effort-to-block-special-counsel-report-on-federal-cases/

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In the filing, Garland asked the 11th Circuit to make clear when denying the motion that the decision is the final resolution and “should be the last word” unless the full appellate court or Supreme Court intervene.

Additionally, Garland asked that Cannon’s three-day ban be vacated and allow the election subversion report be released immediately.

The appellate court’s decision Thursday leaves Cannon’s order in place, and made it clear it was not the final word on the issue.

Her decisions are what are being appealed (unless they decide to drop that too).

The bigger issue here is whether a "new DOJ" would drop everything once they get sworn in, but there seems to be an attempt to be able to somehow put that case on ice to resurrect later (assuming there is an election in our favor in 2028).