Two of President-elect Trump's co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case are asking U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon to further suspend the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report.
If the measure is successful, time will run out and the matter will end up in court with little time until President Trump's inauguration.
Mr. Trump and his co-defendants filed suit in two different courts seeking to block both volumes of the documents and Mr. Smith's report on the election interference investigation.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied the petition by clerk Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira to block the release of the report, but the court ruled that three more Cannon's ruling blocking the release of the daily report was left unchanged. .
Before dawn, Smith's team filed a motion asking Cannon to waive the three-day period and also asked the 11th Circuit to vacate the order from the lower court.
However, lawyers for President Trump's two co-defendants said, I wrote that on Friday The appeals court had given the green light for additional proceedings against Cannon because it did not mention Cannon's three-day waiting period and directed prosecutors to challenge that deadline with a Florida judge.
“The government literally asked the Eleventh Circuit to vacate the January 7, 2025 order, and the Eleventh Circuit refused.For practical purposes, the issue “Defendant’s argument in the Eleventh Circuit that the case belongs to this court in the first place prevails,” they wrote.
“This matter was properly left to the prudential discretion of this court.”
Lawyers are asking Cannon to extend the temporary restraining order to allow for additional legal briefs and hearings.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has already withheld the Mar-a-Lago report and plans to release only the Jan. 6 report to avoid jeopardizing the ongoing prosecution of Nauta and de Oliveira. It states that.
With Trump's inauguration just 10 days away, if Cannon agrees, it would likely block the release of the report on January 6th. His Justice Department is expected to drop the charges against them and shelve Smith's two-volume report.
Cannon had previously agreed to let another judge hold hearings on issues that would likely be resolved with written submissions alone, and the case languished until she dismissed it altogether.
Cannon ruled that Smith was illegally appointed and threw out the case, which prosecutors say undermines 50 years of precedent for appointing special prosecutors.
