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   From: 86comey@trump.org   
      
   The federal judge who tossed then-special counsel Jack Smith's   
   classified documents case against President Donald Trump has permanently   
   barred the release of Smith's final report on his probe.   
      
   U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in 2024 after   
   deciding that Smith's appointment as special counsel was unlawful, then   
   blocked the release of the Smith's report on his investigation.   
      
   She ruled Monday that the report should be sealed for good, after Trump   
   and his co-defendants in the case sought a court order barring the   
   report's release.   
      
   The public release of the report "would contravene the conclusions in   
   the Court's final Dismissal Order that Special Counsel Smith acted   
   without lawful appointment or funding authority in this proceeding and   
   that his actions taken in connection herewith are therefore invalid,"   
   Cannon's order said.   
      
   Cannon, a Trump appointee, also scolded Smith for preparing the report   
   in the first place even though she had ruled his appointment was   
   unlawful, calling it a "concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal   
   Order."   
      
   "Nevertheless, rather than seek a stay of the Order, or clarification,   
   Special Counsel Smith and his team chose to circumvent it, for months,   
   by taking the discovery generated in this case and compiling it in a   
   final report for transmission to then-Attorney General Garland, to   
   Congress, and then beyond," Cannon wrote in her order.   
      
   "The Court need not countenance this brazen stratagem or effectively   
   perpetuate the Special Counsel's breach of this Court's own order," she   
   wrote.   
      
   https://abcnews.com/US/judge-permanently-blocks-release-final-re   
   ort-trump-classified/story?id=130412078   
      
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