Appeals Court Declines to Block Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump Cases
The New York Times
The judges left in place a lower-court injunction that bars the disclosure of the report for three days, and the Justice Department then appealed it.
A federal appeals court said on Thursday that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations he conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a brief and unsigned order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, rejected an emergency request from Mr. Trump’s legal team to stop the report from coming out.
The move is part of a complicated back-and-forth fight in the final days before Mr. Trump is set to become president again over whether at least some of Mr. Smith’s report will ever be released. The order does not necessarily mean the report will become public immediately.
Both sections of Mr. Smith’s two-volume report remain for the moment under an injunction put in place this week by a lower-court judge in Florida that is temporarily blocking their release.
The Justice Department has already said that it intends to hold off on releasing the volume that concerns the case in Florida in which Mr. Trump was accused of mishandling classified documents after he left office.
But the department has said that it wants to release the other volume, which details Mr. Smith’s decisions in the case he filed in Washington accusing Mr. Trump of seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
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