The federal judge hearing the case over President-elect Donald J. Trump’s classified document temporarily blocked special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday from releasing his final report on the investigation.

In a brief ruling, Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who dismissed the documents case entirely this summer, ordered Mr. Smith to share his report outside the Justice Department pending a federal appeals court in Atlanta, which now has a Lawsuit mulls challenge to its dismissal of case, makes decision on how to handle report.

On Monday, Mr. Trump’s lawyers and lawyers for his two co-defendants launched a multi-pronged attempt to stop the release of Mr. Smith’s report, which they said was “one-sided” and part of a “politically motivated attack” against the president-elect.

Mr. Trump’s legal team wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland asking him to stop the release of the report, which was scheduled to be released as early as Friday. In a separate move, lawyers for Mr. Trump’s co-defendants in the documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, appealed directly to Judge Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, requesting an emergency order blocking their release.

The legal wrangling continued on Tuesday as Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira asked the appeals court for an opinion blocking the report and Mr. Trump sought to join their request before Judge Cannon.

With the case already dismissed, the report would essentially be Mr. Smith’s last chance to lay out damaging new details and evidence (if any) about how Mr. Trump is mishandling a trove of classified documents after he leaves office in 2021 has.

Judge Cannon dismissed the case in July, ruling, despite decades of precedent, that Mr. Smith had been improperly appointed as special counsel. Mr. Smith quickly appealed that decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

But after Mr. Trump won the election in November, Mr. Smith dropped the appeal against Mr. Trump, effectively ending his role in the matter. Mr. Smith has not withdrawn the appeal against Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira, and federal prosecutors in Florida intend to pursue them once Mr. Smith resigns and disbands his team.