President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should never be made public.
Trump urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in a new court filing to extend her 11-month-old order blocking the Justice Department from releasing the full report, which Smith submitted shortly before Trump’s second inauguration.
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Cannon has been under pressure to rule on the groups’ effort to seek the unsealing of the report for weeks. Last month, a three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rapped Cannon for “undue delay” in ruling on whether to take up arguments related to the unsealing of the report. The panel set a 60-day window for Cannon to act, which expires in early January.
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