In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

The Trump appointee said the DOJ couldn’t justify “the purportedly urgent desire” to share information about the ongoing criminal case.

Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.

Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.

The DOJ argued that Judge Cannon cannot stop the government from releasing Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case to members of Congress The post Cannon ‘lacks the authority’ to halt release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents to Congress,

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a harsh order halting the release of the special counsel's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents The post ‘No valid justification’: Cannon slams DOJ’s ‘urgent desire’ to release Jack Smith’s full Trump report based on a ‘non-existent historical practice’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

A federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from showing selected lawmakers portions of special counsel Jack Smith’s ... U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, said there ...

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred the Justice Department from sending the report to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

On the second day of his presidency, Donald Trump secured yet another victory from his ally Judge Aileen Cannon.

Judge Aileen Cannon fulfilled the final terms of her employment—and threw a drive-by elbow at Jack Smith into the bargain.

Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the Justice Department to withhold former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents report from four members of Congress.

The so-called documents case refers to Smith's probe into whether Trump left the White House in 2021 with classified documents.