Judge Cannon’s Flawed Order Blocking Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago Report

This is the first of two columns on what is shaping up as a battle by President Trump and his Justice Department to discredit as illegitimate the Biden Justice Department’s two criminal prosecutions of Trump — the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the January 6 case, which involved the 2020 presidential election. The controversy crystallized this past week when Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, forbade the Justice Department from disclosing Biden DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation.

Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee to the federal district court in South Florida who presided over and eventually dismissed felony charges against Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case, has granted the now-president’s motion to bar the Justice Department from publicizing the final report submitted by prosecutor Jack Smith. The ruling was made in a 15-page order Judge Cannon issued on Monday.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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This is the first of two columns on what is shaping up as a battle by President Trump and his Justice Department to discredit as illegitimate the Biden Justice Department’s two criminal prosecutions of Trump — the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the January 6 case, which involved the 2020 presidential election. The controversy crystallized this past week when Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, forbade the Justice Department from disclosing Biden DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation.

Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee to the federal district court in South Florida who presided over and eventually dismissed felony charges against Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case, has granted the now-president’s motion to bar the Justice Department from publicizing the final report submitted by prosecutor Jack Smith. The ruling was made in a 15-page order Judge Cannon issued on Monday.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.