Judge Clears DOJ Release of Trump 2020 Election Case Report (1)

A federal judge in Florida won’t block US Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing part of the final report on the federal criminal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled on Monday that Garland can release the part of the report detailing former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

But Cannon extended an earlier order that barred Garland from sharing the second part of Smith’s report with anyone outside of the Justice Department. That volume related to the investigation into whether Trump illegally held onto classified documents ...