Aileen Cannon's Ruling Blocking Jack Smith's Report Is Factually Wrong

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The Trump-appointed judge said the DOJ has never before released a report prior to the end of criminal proceedings. It has.

https://www.notus.org/courts/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-report



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. The Department of Justice did exactly that with one of its most recent special counsels — during an investigation of Trump. Former FBI director Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation lasted two years and ended when he closed the office in late May 2019. But the DOJ released his 448-page report, which carefully laid out the many threads they investigated and hurdles they encountered, more than a month earlier on April 18.

At the time the Mueller report was released publicly, the Justice Department was still in the midst of pursuing a case against Republican adviser Roger Stone for lying to investigators and prosecuting the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency over its role in meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. And while Trump associate Paul Manafort had just been sentenced to prison, the feds were still trying to seize his New York apartment.

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1. But it was good enough for Merrick the Meek.