The Trump appointee said the DOJ couldn’t justify “the purportedly urgent desire” to share information about the ongoing criminal case.
Judge Aileen Cannon is blocking top lawmakers from privately viewing a report on the classified documents case
The so-called documents case refers to Smith's probe into whether Trump left the White House in 2021 with classified documents.
The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.
The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.
The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."
The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.
President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Justice Department -- former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi -- appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should not be allowed to share the report outside the Justice Department, adding that it contained information that had not been made public.