To go along with James Joyner’s post, the NYT reports Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsel’s Final Report on Trump Documents Investigation.
The federal judge who handled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, on Tuesday from releasing his final report on the investigation to the public.
In a brief ruling, Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who dismissed the documents case in its entirety this summer, enjoined Mr. Smith from sharing his report outside the Justice Department until a federal appeals court in Atlanta, which is now considering a challenge to her dismissal of the case, makes a decision about how to handle the report.
My guess is that the pending appeal provides a legal fig leaf for this order. But it sure is amazing how Eileen Cannon always manages to do what Trump wants done.
