U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the Justice Department from allowing a small, bipartisan group of legislators to review Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s stash of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago by claiming such a disclosure was unprecedented.
“Never before has the Department of Justice, prior to the conclusion of criminal proceedings against a defendant — and absent a litigation-specific reason as appropriate in the case itself — sought to disclose outside the Department a report prepared by a Special Counsel containing substantive and voluminous case information. Until now,” Cannon wrote in her order on Tuesday.
She is wrong.