DOJ says Cannon has no authority to stop public release of Jack Smith's report on election interference case
Source: Law & Crime
Jan 10th, 2025, 11:23 am
The Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reverse U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order temporarily enjoining Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into Donald Trump, arguing that the judge had “no basis at all” for halting the public release of volume one of the report.
The DOJ planned to release the first volume to Congress and the public while only releasing volume two for review in chambers “by the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees upon their request and agreement not to release any information from Volume Two publicly.”
The DOJ’s notice of appeal, filed just after midnight on Friday, came after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request from Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, Trump’s codefendants in the case, to prevent the release of Smith’s report. While the appeals court rejected Nauta and De Oliveira’s request, it left in place Cannon’s order, which she said would remain in effect for additional three days following resolution by the appellate court.
“To the extent that Appellant [DOJ] seeks relief from [Cannon’s] January 7, 2025, order temporarily enjoining Appellant, Appellant may file a notice of appeal from that order,” the circuit court wrote in Thursday’s order. The DOJ did just that late Thursday evening, asking the court to vacate Cannon’s ruling enjoining the release of Smith’s report, reiterating its argument that Cannon does not have the authority to control the special counsel’s findings.
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Full headline: ‘No basis at all’: DOJ says Cannon has no authority to stop public release of Jack Smith’s report on election interference case
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.87822/gov.uscourts.ca11.87822.101.0.pdf
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Sure seems to me that DOJ is exactly right on this matter.
Nevertheless, defendant will do everything possible to run out the clock to delay issuing of this report, so that when he is inaugurated he can order that the report be concealed and/or destroyed.
... she seems to be able to delay it, slow it down, long enough for the new AG to delete the report from all servers.
She'll make a fine justice of the extreme court.
So when's the 14th Amendment gonna come out from hiding President Biden, House & Senate, DOJ?
My gut feeling is this volume two which can only be viewed by a few select Congress people
will prove he's a traitor to the United States and can be locked up. 
I really hope President Biden has something up his sleeve he's keeping real quiet until the absolute
last minute so as not to give the enemy any ideas as to what's about to happen.
Sit down and shut up, Cannon! 
Enough "planning." Release the damned thing already!
