The ruling can be appealed. President-elect Donald Trump says releasing the special counsel report would interfere with his White House transition.

A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to block the Justice Department from releasing a report on Donald Trump, which is expected to detail investigations conducted by Special Counsel Jack Smith over attempts to subvert the election results and for mishandling classified documents.

Trump is obviously no fan of Biden, but Obama and his veep also have a famously complex relationship, only made more so after Obama helped nudge Biden to quit the presidential race last summer. Surely Obama feels some frustration that Biden fumbled a possibly winnable race; maybe he couldn’t help spill to his sworn enemy?

Mike Pence's wife Karen did not greet President-elect Donald Trump or Melania Trump at Jimmy Carter's funeral Thursday morning. As the former vice president rose to shake hands with Trump, his wife remained seated.

President-elect Donald Trump shook hands with former vice president Mike Pence and sat with former president Barack Obama at former president Jimmy Carter’s service on Jan. 9.

The Pennsylvania senator, a Democrat, said he would "meet with and have a conversation with anyone" to deliver for his state.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, multiple sources said.

"I'm angling to be named the pope of Greenland," Fetterman told reporters on Capitol Hill after confirming the meeting.

Gavin Newsom (D) swiftly dismissed Donald Trump’s efforts to “play politics” on Wednesday after the president-elect blamed him for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that have killed at least five people.