Judge Cannon reminded a second time that she's been sitting for months on request for Jack Smith's full report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Jul 11th, 2025, 3:37 pm


A second nonprofit group attempting to clear the way for the public disclosure of special counsel Jack Smith's full report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation of President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents following his first term in office urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on its request to intervene and undo an injunction she put in place 171 days ago — an order the DOJ is currently using to its advantage to resist a New York Times lawsuit.

In Cannon's Jan. 21 injunction blocking the release of Smith's Mar-a-Lago report, she pointed out that Trump valet Waltine Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira still had an active appeal in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and that, as a result, they "retain — as all parties agree — due process rights to a fair trial that would be imperiled by public dissemination of Volume II."

"In short, the Department offers no valid justification for the purportedly urgent desire to release to members of Congress case information in an ongoing criminal proceeding," wrote Cannon, the judge who dismissed the president's Espionage Act case and invalidated Smith's appointment as special counsel last July. "Meanwhile, on the other side of the balance, there are two individuals in this action, each with constitutional rights to a fair trial, who remain subject to a live criminal appeal of this Court's Order Dismissing the Superseding Indictment."

At the time of the injunction, the judge noted, the freshly installed Trump administration DOJ had yet to toss the cases against Trump's now former co-defendants.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cannon-reminded-again-its-high-time-to-rule-on-groups-pursuit-of-jack-smith-mar-a-lago-report/

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Full headline: Judge Cannon reminded a second time that she's been sitting for months on request for Jack Smith's full Mar-a-Lago report, as DOJ takes full advantage

REFERENCE (first non-profit request) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143492789

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That's an odd way to think of rape.

Maybe you should give this some more thought.

[SalamanderSleeps]

3. Okay, maybe I should just have called her a "transactional whore."

I was trying to be nice.

Girls are dying everywhere because of her.

Rape is a very strong word.

PM me if you want to know a little bit more about me

[Botany]

4. Cannon is part of the coup.

Just seven days after Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, the Senate rammed through Judge Aileen Cannon—a Federalist Society loyalist—to the federal bench, again via the nuclear option. The seat? It would later oversee Trump’s classified documents case.

Think about that. Before he even walked out of the White House with stolen materials and a failed insurrection attempt, Donald Trump had already secured the judge who would protect him. He wasn't just breaking the law—he was fortifying his legal escape route in advance, with an assist from Senate Republicans.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct

[FakeNoose]

6. Yep - it was orchestrated from the get-go by Federalist Society and others

[Botany]

20. This Fascist Coup is wide and deep and has been ongoing for years.

Republicans know their ideas and policies are antithetical to what the majority of Americans
want and need so they have to cheat and been doing so for years. Remember good Chuck
Grassley who on January 5th, 2021 said something to the effect of, “I don’t see Vice President
Pence being here tomorrow to certify the vote.” And on J-6th when the mob attacked the U.S.
Capitol which has something like 650 windows of which only 12 were not bomb proof and 2
doors that weren’t blast proof and the thugs hit each and every one of them. Inside Republican
knowledge @ work. Cannon was installed to protect Trump from being held accountable for
his multiple crimes because he is a useful idiot to the rich and powerful.

[mdbl]

15. any normal and ethical congress would have done something about her

Too bad we don't have that.

[TheRickles]

18. Supposedly she was chosen at random from the roster of eligible federal judges to oversee that case.

I'd like to learn about the actual method used to choose her (ie, picking a name out of a hat), as it seems to have been a total set-up.

[kacekwl]

5. It's on her desk

for review.

[BoRaGard]

7. Until it isn't

You never know, a evildoer lib might steal it and prevent the public from ever knowing the extent of Krasnov's GOP-style treason because maybe Hilary's emails are at the bottom of the whole stinkpot.

[republianmushroom]

8. Her reply, dudes, go pound sand.

Doing her job protecting their orange Jesus.

[Marie Marie]

9. She's waiting for her appointment to the Supreme court or at least a Federal Appeals Court.. Or , if the angry mob of

Magats drive Pam Blondie out of the DOJ, maybe she will be her replacement. Until any of these happen, she is playing "Look at ME!! I'm such a good little Soldier".

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Stepford Wife ain't remotely qualified for the bench. But we got no mechanisms for recourse?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. If things were reversed

and she had been a Democratic appointee, then the current House GOP would have ceased all work and started Impeachment hearings and would have voted to impeach... and then the Senate would have accepted the impeachment for a trial (with no guarantee that they would have enough votes to table it or send it to committee to dispense with the matter like they were able to do when they impeached Mayorkas).

[onenote]

13. Repubs have introduced impeachment resolutions against at least a half dozen judges

Most Obama or Biden appointees. But they haven't followed up on any of them. It's just performative shit to appease the Orange Leader.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. That's because they have had that "BBB" to finish up

and they now have appropriations bills for FY'26 to do, and even planning for a follow-on "BBB" starting next FY that has been rumored (they can do reconciliation once for each type, either as a single bill or combos, each FY).

But we have almost ~1.5 years left with them unless/until we take back at least the House in 2026.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Assuming we have elections. Not so sure.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. If they think they "have it in the bag"

then we'll have them. The fact that you have TX spending (wasting) time right now in a "Special Legislative Session" discussing "redistricting" (and OH considering the same) means they seem to have concerns about and intent on trying to "bolster their slim majorities". If they weren't planning on elections, they wouldn't bother interrupting their summer vacations redrawing lines that would have no relevance.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. good point.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. We are still on the precipice though

but I've been trying to monitor what the red states are doing when it comes to the upcoming federal elections. A post-2026 U.S. might be very different where the threat becomes real.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. It is what it is, as they say and this person is clearly in 45/47 's pocket. Accountability went by the wayside.

[kimbutgar]

11. I wonder if Jack Smith has a copy?

[FakeNoose]

21. By now he has probably changed his name and moved out of town

... but I'm sure he saw all the evidence. The question is whether he will leak it as an anonymous citizen.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. I remember asking AG Merrick Garland to release it.

For reasons now obvious.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. I think they still wanted to carry the case forward for Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira

who were also indicted as part of the same case, but then the election happened.