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According to a Politico report, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his two criminal investigations into Donald Trump.

The order bars Merrick Garland, the Justice Department, Smith and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” from “releasing, sharing, or transmitting the Final Report or any drafts of such Report outside the Department of Justice.”

From Politico:

The extraordinary move, coming just days before Smith’s office is expected to shut down, scrambles the final stage of the special counsel’s work. Smith is expected to wrap up and deliver to Attorney General Merrick Garland a final report laying out the results of his probes into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left office in 2021 and his attempt to subvert the 2020 election. Garland has said he would release the report publicly in some form.

But Cannon’s order, issued at the request of two Trump allies who were co-defendants in the classified documents case, bars the Justice Department from releasing the report or any portion of it until three days after a federal appeals court rules on the issue.

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