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NewHendoLib

(61,754 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:13 PM 18 hrs ago

Guardian "Judge permanently bars US justice department from releasing report on Trump's classified documents case"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/23/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-tariffs-epstein-immigration-latest-news-updates

In a ruling on Monday, US federal judge Aileen Cannon permanently prohibited the justice department from releasing a report put together by former special counsel Jack Smith related to classified documents Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago.

Cannon, based in Florida, had previously dismissed the case against Trump in mid-2024 because, she concluded, Smith had not been properly appointed to a role as special counsel. Smith continued to prepare a final report based on what he and his team had collected in the investigation, Cannon wrote in her ruling Monday.

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” she wrote of Smith continuing to create a report.

Releasing the report would be a “manifest injustice” for the defendants, since the case didn’t go to a jury, she wrote. “The former defendants in this case, like any other defendant in this situation, still enjoy the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order.”
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Guardian "Judge permanently bars US justice department from releasing report on Trump's classified documents case" (Original Post) NewHendoLib 18 hrs ago OP
Treason weasel Cannon strikes again! Impeach, remove and disbar this hack, then deport her to South Sudan Blues Heron 18 hrs ago #1
She just confirmed by that action that the report is credible, and the lostincalifornia 17 hrs ago #2
She will be the perfect Trump appointee for SCOTUS newdeal2 17 hrs ago #3
Her again!?!?!!! Faux pas 11 hrs ago #4
appeal it RT Atlanta 11 hrs ago #5

Blues Heron

(8,574 posts)
1. Treason weasel Cannon strikes again! Impeach, remove and disbar this hack, then deport her to South Sudan
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:16 PM
18 hrs ago

Thank you for your attention to this fecal matter!

lostincalifornia

(5,207 posts)
2. She just confirmed by that action that the report is credible, and the
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:27 PM
17 hrs ago

sociopath in the WH guilty up to his neck.

newdeal2

(5,137 posts)
3. She will be the perfect Trump appointee for SCOTUS
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:29 PM
17 hrs ago

We all know she’s been auditioning for that role.

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