Trump’s effort could complicate efforts by congressional Republicans to grill Smith about the substance of his investigation. Cannon’s order bars the Justice Department from disseminating the results of its investigation to outsiders, including Congress. While Smith’s final classified documents report remains under seal, he may not have authority to discuss its findings with lawmakers.

Trump’s move is his first direct request of Cannon — a judge he appointed at the end of his first term — since taking office. And the filing came from his personal lawyer rather than Justice Department officials, who weighed in separately Monday. The filing is infused with the typical disdain Trump has expressed for his former prosecutors, labeling Smith a “so-called special counsel” and saying the case was “marred by numerous deficiencies and repeated abuses of office.”

Cannon derailed Smith’s classified documents case against Trump in July 2024, ruling that his appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. The Justice Department appealed her ruling but dropped the appeal after Trump won the 2024 election.

Prosecutors also dropped a bid to revive the charges against Trump’s two codefendants in the matter, including Walt Nauta, his personal aide at the time.

Trump’s request comes as Cannon is nearing a deadline to decide how to handle demands by First Amendment groups to lift her blockade on Smith’s report. His Justice Department argued in a filing on Monday that her original block “should remain in effect.”

Notably, the Justice Department suggested that if Cannon intended to lift her order, she should order DOJ officials to give Trump’s codefendants a 60-day heads up to facilitate potential legal challenges to the release of the report.

Cannon has been under pressure to rule on the groups’ effort to seek the unsealing of the report for weeks. Last month, a three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rapped Cannon for “undue delay” in ruling on whether to take up arguments related to the unsealing of the report. The panel set a 60-day window for Cannon to act, which expires in early January.

>>1461932
Yup, he stole nuclear top secrets and sold them to the saudis.
He needs to be prosecuted for it and also the judge who ran a cover up for him for obstruction of justice.

>>1461948
sorry, democrats are insisting that injured people without ids should get medical treatment instead of interrogations, and since that may help brown people we have to sell secrets to the saudis
if democraps just burned down america in the first place MAGA wouldn't have to burn down america to protect it from democraps

>>1461956
nice whataboutism.
we deserve better than this bullshit.

>>1461956
>sorry, democrats are insisting that injured people without ids should get medical treatment instead of interrogations
I'm sorry can you like, take a step back and recognize how fucking insane that statement is? How absolutely deranged you have to be to violate one of the primary universal rules of healthcare?

Hey derailers, can you keep the healthcare shit in the thread about healthcare?
>>1461950

>>1461957
>we deserve better than this bullshit.
You'd be incapable of backing that statement up even if you weren't a borderline retarded non-American shill

My grandpa is his age and has to be reminded of his FB log-in every morning.

>>1461932
Jack Smith uncovered the truth and did nothing wrong.

>>1461956
>Whataboutism
trump should also be prosecuted for murdering anyone who starved when he illegally withheld SNAP too.

>>1461956
I'm convinced that conservatism is an indicator of long-term brain damage.