United States officials have announced plans to release only part of a report detailing the federal investigation into President-elect Donald Trump after a court ruled to block some of the findings.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that the released report would focus on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

However, it does not address a second federal investigation looking into Trump’s alleged misuse of classified documents while in office after his first term ends in 2021.

The announcement means that certain insights into the investigation of secret documents are unlikely to be made public in the foreseeable future.

Trump is scheduled to begin his second term in less than two weeks on January 20. Then the Justice Department will fall under his control.

The investigation into classified documents was once considered the biggest threat to Trump, who was embroiled in a sprawling web of legal cases. He is the first US president to be convicted of crimes.

However, Trump has denied wrongdoing in all cases. He repeatedly criticized the investigation as politically motivated and “wrong.”

While the classified documents section of the report will not be made available to the public, the Justice Department has said it will make its contents available to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

These members must agree not to publish the section while the legal proceedings in the secret documents case are ongoing.

“This limited disclosure will further the public interest in keeping congressional leadership informed about an important matter within the Department while protecting the interests of the defendants,” the Justice Department wrote in its court filings.

This process was at the heart of the decision to refuse to publish the classified documents section of the report.

On Tuesday, a federal judge, Aileen Cannon, temporarily blocked the release, citing the ongoing litigation.

While charges against Trump in the secret documents case were dropped in November, his two co-defendants – Trump associates Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira – still face the possibility of criminal proceedings.

Nauta, an aide, and De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, were accused of helping the president-elect withhold and conceal the secret documents despite demands for him to release them.

Defense attorneys argued that releasing the report would unduly interfere with their right to a fair hearing.

The Justice Department has not yet indicated when it will release the other volume of the report, which focuses on the election interference allegations.

In that case, too, Smith filed a motion to dismiss the charges in November, citing Trump’s impending return to office. He cited the Justice Department’s policy against prosecuting a sitting president.

This case focused on Trump’s actions leading up to and after the November 2020 election, when the Republican incumbent faced Democrat Joe Biden for the presidency.

Trump ultimately lost. But Smith and his team of federal prosecutors have argued that Trump conspired to defraud the United States by overturning his defeat and disrupting official procedures to confirm the correct result.

Trump has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 race and that his victory was denied by widespread voter fraud.

In Wednesday’s court filing, the Justice Department said Attorney General Merrick Garland had “clear” authority to release the scope of the report, which focuses on allegations of election interference.

“In fact, the defendants’ position regarding Volume One of the Final Report is little different than that of any other members of the public,” the department said.

Garland, a member of outgoing President Biden’s administration, appointed Smith as special counsel in 2022 to avoid conflicts of interest that a political appointee might have in leading the case.

According to Justice Department regulations, Smith must submit a final report to Garland.

The attorney general has said he will release any special counsel reports he receives: He previously released a report written by special counsel Robert Hur on Biden’s handling of classified documents outside of public office.

However, Trump and his defense team have fought to prevent the release. At a news conference Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, Trump called Smith a “disgrace.”

“He probably wanted to write a report right before I took office, so he’s going to like a 500-page report and it’s going to be a fake report, just like the investigation was a fake investigation,” Trump said. “Why should he be allowed to write a fake report?”