Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of Jack Smith classified docs report
Source: Alternet.org · Bias: Left
Summary
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has permanently blocked the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Trump's alleged removal, retention, and refusal to return classified documents.Politico's Kyle Cheney reported the news.In a fifteen-page order, Judge Cannon restated that she had found the appointment of Special Counsel Smith was unlawful and therefore any "actions that flowed" from the appointment were "unlawful exercises of executive power."Cannon wrote that Attorney General Pam Bondi or her successors or any other Department of Justice officials are prohibited from releasing or sharing the report, known as Volume II, anywhere outside the DOJ.She also wrote that she agrees that releasing the report would be unfair to President Donald Trump and his former co-defendants, Cheney reported.Cannon wrote that releasing it "would cause irreparable damage to former defendants" and "it would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal charges."Judge Cannon last month had temporarily blocked the release of the report, ABC News reported at the time.
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