As reported by legal analyst Adam Klasfeld on BlueSky, Cannon denied an emergency motion filed by attorneys representing Trump codefendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were both implicated in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
Cannon also set a date of Friday, January 17th for a hearing on whether to authorize the release of Smith’s final report on the documents case, which she dismissed last year after finding that Smith was not properly appointed as special counsel.
Unless further legal challenges arise, the United States Department of Justice can release the first volume of Smith’s final report as soon as Tuesday, January 14th.
This article made no sense to me until I realized there are two volumes of the report. The motion to suppress the release of Volume 1 was denied, and could be released by the DoJ as early as tomorrow. There will be a hearing Friday whether to authorize the release of Volume 2. Without this context, the timeline and headline made zero sense.
Did he deny her a post or something? I don’t get it.
It means it’s probably nothing in the report that we don’t already know, or that what is in the report that we get to see, there won’t be much to cause Trump any trouble.
She didn’t suddenly turn against Trump. It’s just that the report is probably gonna be worthless from a legal perspective.
That makes more sense.
Even if the report has all new evidence that damns trump, he will just say that there isn’t anything there and it absolves him. It’s not like the contents will be reported to his base.
Plus she also gets to say she wasn’t entirely biased.
She’s trying to save face. She has no power or jurisdiction here.
Once she dismissed the case and it headed to the 11th on appeal, she lost any actual ability to do anything regarding the case with the exception of orders she made that were not on appeal (there were none).
Additionally she has no power to release volume 2 of the report. That power is only held with the DOJ. Jack Smith even stated that it should not be released as long as the case against the conspirators still survived. Releasing that report would likely damage the case against them. However, if that happens, it would likely mean Trump would not need to pardon them to stop the prosecution. While the report may be seen as a threat to Trump, anyone who supports him refuses to believe he did anyone wing and I doubt anyone who would actually read it would have a change of heart.
