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

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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