Cannon blocks Jack Smith from publishing his report – for now

Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday issued an order temporarily blocking former special counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report on the so-called “documents” case against President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump’s legal team filed an emergency motion Monday evening in the U.S. District Court and Appeals Court to arrest Smith.

Cannon’s order Tuesday said, in part:

Pending resolution of the emergency motion filed with the Eleventh Circuit and/or any further direction from the Eleventh Circuit, Attorney General Garland, the Department of Justice, Special Counsel Smith, all of their officers, agents, and employees, as well as all persons acting in concert or active participation with such persons, see Fed. R.Civ. P. 65(d)(2), are TEMPORARILY PROHIBITED from (a) publishing, sharing, or transmitting the final report or any draft of such a report outside of the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise publishing, distributing, transmit or share with any person outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions contained in the final report or in drafts thereof.

The order against Smith’s report will be in effect until three days after the Eleventh Circuit’s decision, Cannon wrote.

Smith released a similar report in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., in October, in what critics called a deliberate attempt to interfere in the presidential election by slandering Trump.

Joel B. Pollak is a senior editor at Breitbart News and host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Agenda: What Trump should do in his first 100 daysavailable for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidencynow available on Audible. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.