U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigation into Donald Trump.

The lawsuit comes as litigation continues in the secret documents case, which has been appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by former Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, where the government is challenging Cannon’s dismissal of the case appealed. Smith dropped the two federal lawsuits against Trump.

A similar defense motion seeking to block the report is pending in the appeals court. Cannon noted that request and wrote that her order would be in effect until three days after the 11th Circuit’s decision on the appeal, unless the appeals court orders otherwise. Specifically, the order states:

Cannon wrote that she was issuing the order to “maintain the status quo” while awaiting word from the 11th Circuit “to prevent irreparable harm resulting from the circumstances described in the current filing in this emergency, and.” to enable an orderly and considered course of action.” Sequence of events.” She noted that the order did not constitute a final resolution of the application to block the report.

Nauta and De Oliveira, supported by Trump, had argued to both Cannon and the appeals court that the release of the report would unfairly disadvantage them because the criminal case against them could still proceed. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Of course, the case against them may not be heard long after Trump takes office, whether through the withdrawal of the appeal by Trump’s Justice Department (where he has tapped his defense attorneys for top posts) or through Trump’s pardons. Smith dropped the appeal of the documents lawsuit against only the president-elect, not Nauta and De Oliveira, while Trump was the only defendant in the federal election interference case, which was also dismissed and is the subject of a separate volume in Smith’s report.

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