Washington, Feb. 23 -- A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report describing President Donald Trump's stockpiling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and allegations that he obstructed government efforts to reclaim them.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted requests from Trump and two of his former co-defendants in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to issue an order prohibiting the release of the second volume of Smith's report. The order bars Attorney General Pam Bondi or her successors from releasing or sharing that portion of the final report, CBS reported.
Cannon lit into Smith for a "brazen stratagem": for compiling the detailed repor...