Brandi Buchman is a legal/justice reporter at HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. She covers the U.S. Justice Department, federal courts, and issues where law and politics intersect. She has reported on the Trump administration at length including both impeachments of former President Donald Trump, the Jan.
On Tuesday, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order blocking the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s highly anticipated reports on the prosecution of President-electtwo of Trump’s co-defendants in the now-dismissed classified documents case, onetime valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
Beyond a decision from the appellate court in the days ahead, the only way to stop the judge’s injunction, according to Cannon’s order, is if there is further direction from Attorney General Merrick Garland to do so. But for now, Cannon’s order temporarily stops Smith from releasing or sharing the report to anyone outside of the Justice Department. Trump and his lawyers have already reviewed the two-volume tome privately, according to the president-elect’s lawyers.
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