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

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32. They are under a COURT ORDER

The hearing for it is going on about it 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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