当选总统唐纳德·特朗普案的法官机密文件案周二，在第十一巡回上诉法院考虑此事时，暂时阻止了特别顾问杰克·史密斯最终报告的发布，以防止“不可挽回的伤害”。
此前一天，特朗普的前共同被告沃尔特·诺塔(Walt Nauta)和卡洛斯·德·奥利韦拉(Carlos De Oliveira)向美国地区法官艾琳·坎农(Aileen Cannon)询问谁驳回机密文件的案子7月，在认定史密斯的任命违宪后，发布命令禁止司法部长梅里克·加兰公开发布该报告。
坎农将此事推迟到第十一巡回法院，但暂时阻止了报告的发布，“以防止当前记录中描述的情况在这种紧急状态下造成不可挽回的伤害，并允许有序和审慎的事件顺序。”
坎农法官的命令可能代表着司法部的未知领域，司法部的特别律师通常会在调查结束后准备报告。
坎农说，除非巡回法院另有规定，否则该命令在巡回法院解决紧急动议后三天内仍然有效。
巡回法院根据坎农的命令，命令司法部在美国东部时间周三上午10点之前回应特朗普的紧急动议。
周二早些时候，Nauta和De Olivera的律师要求第十一巡回法庭发布一项阻止发布报告的命令，同时还建议法院可以将这个问题发回给坎农法官，这位特朗普任命的法官有着为前总统发表有利意见的历史。在坎农批准了他们阻止报告发布的紧急命令的请求后，特朗普的律师改变了态度，要求第十一巡回法院将案件发回坎农。
律师在周二下午的一份文件中表示，“鉴于地区法院处理此事的努力和未决的干预动议，被上诉人再次提出替代请求，要求法院下令将案件有限发回地区法院，以进行所有适当的诉讼程序，并就禁令救济的索赔做出裁决。”
总部设在亚特兰大的第十一巡回法庭在过去一致否决了坎农法官的裁决颠倒她的顺序要求对调查期间从特朗普的Mar-a-Lago庄园扣押的记录进行外部审查。
虽然特朗普的共同被告反对公布报告中与机密文件案相关的部分，而不是涉及特朗普的部分选举干预案法官坎农的命令只提到了“最终报告”，而不是其中的两卷，这表明整个报告被阻止发布。
特朗普的律师也要求坎农允许特朗普正式加入他的前共同被告人阻止报告发布的努力。
特朗普的律师在周二上午的一份文件中表示，“作为一名前任和即将上任的总统，特朗普总统非常熟悉史密斯、他的办公室和DOJ其他人所犯下的法律后果，应该被允许参与这些诉讼。”
这份文件是在特别检察官办公室回应Nauta和De Oliveira要求Cannon阻止报告发布的请求后提交的，该办公室证实，该办公室正在“努力敲定”一份报告，司法部长Garland -他对报告中的哪些材料公开有最终决定权-仍未决定从与史密斯的机密文件调查有关的卷中发布什么。
“今天早上的通知是史密斯明显缺乏对本法院和刑事司法系统基本规范的尊重的最新例子，”特朗普的律师在他们的文件中写道，指的是史密斯表示，他的办公室计划在美国东部时间周二下午1点之前将报告转交司法部长梅里克·加兰。
特别检察官办公室在他们的文件中向坎农法官保证，史密斯不会在周五上午10点之前的任何时候公布报告的具体内容，他们将在周二晚上7点之前对Nauta和DeOliveira的紧急动议做出更全面的回应。
特朗普的律师还致信加兰，要求他解除史密斯的职务，并将有关报告发布的决定推迟到特朗普即将上任的司法部长帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)。
特朗普挑选的特朗普辩护律师托德·布兰奇(Todd Blanche)和埃米尔·博韦(Emil Bove)写道，“不应该准备或发布任何报告，史密斯应该被撤职，包括甚至建议采取行动，因为他有明显的政治动机和非法破坏过渡的愿望。”司法部高层职位在即将上任的政府中。
王牌不服罪2023年6月，他受到37项与处理机密材料有关的刑事指控，此前检察官表示，他多次拒绝归还数百份包含从美国核机密到国家国防能力等机密信息的文件，并采取措施阻挠政府收回文件的努力。
前总统以及他的长期助手诺塔和德·奥利维拉也不服罪在一份替代起诉书中，涉嫌试图删除特朗普Mar-a-Lago庄园的监控录像。
由于司法部的一项长期政策禁止起诉在任总统，史密斯一直在逐步减少他对当选总统的诉讼——驳回特朗普的联邦选举干预案，并放弃他对机密文件案的上诉——预计他将在辞职前向加兰提交一份关于他的调查的最终报告。
Judge in Trump's classified docs case temporarily blocks release of special counsel's final report
The judge in President-elect Donald Trump'sclassified documents caseon Tuesday temporarily blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report in an attempt to prevent "irreparable harm" while the matter is considered by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The move came a day after Trump's former co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon -- whodismissed the classified documents casein July after deeming Smith's appointment unconstitutional -- to issue an order barring Attorney General Merrick Garland from publicly releasing the report.
Cannon deferred the matter to the Eleventh Circuit but temporarily blocked the release of the report "to prevent irreparable harm arising from the circumstances as described in the current record in this emergency posture, and to permit an orderly and deliberative sequence of events."
Judge Cannon's order could represent uncharted territory for the Justice Department, whose special counsels normally prepare reports at the end of their investigations.
Cannon said the order remains in effect until three days after the circuit court resolves the emergency motion, unless the circuit says otherwise.
The circuit court, following Cannon's order, ordered the Justice Department to respond to Trump's emergency motion by Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET.
Earlier Tuesday, lawyers for Nauta and De Olivera asked the Eleventh Circuit to issue an order blocking the release of the report, while also suggesting the court could remand the issue to the Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee with a history of delivering favorable opinions for the former president. After Cannon granted their request for an emergency order blocking the report's release, Trump's attorneys shifted gears and asked the Eleventh Circuit to remand the case back to Cannon.
"In light of the district court's efforts addressing this matter and the pending motion for intervention, appellees renew their alternative request that this Court order a limited remand to the district court to conduct all appropriate proceedings and rule on the claim for injunctive relief," the attorneys said in a filing Tuesday afternoon.
The Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit has overruled Judge Cannon in the past, unanimouslyreversing her orderrequiring an outside review of records seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate during the investigation.
While Trump's co-defendants had argued against the release of the portion of the report related to the classified documents case -- and not the portion involving Trump'selection interference case, which Smith also oversaw -- Judge Cannon's order referred only to the "final report," and not the two volumes within, suggesting that the entire report is blocked from release.
Attorneys for Trump had also asked Cannon to allow Trump to formally join his former co-defendants' effort to block the report's release.
"As a former and soon-to-be President, uniquely familiar with the pernicious consequences of lawfare perpetrated by Smith, his Office, and others at DOJ, President Trump should be permitted to participate in these proceedings," Trump's attorneys argued in a Tuesday morning filing.
That filing came after the special counsel's office, responding to Nauta and De Oliveira's request for Cannon to block the report's release, confirmed the office is "working to finalize" a report and that Attorney General Garland -- who has the final say over what material from the report is made public -- has still not determined what to release from the volume that relates to Smith's classified documents investigation.
"This morning's Notice is the most recent example of Smith's glaring lack of respect for this Court and fundamental norms of the criminal justice system," Trump's lawyers wrote in their filing, referring to Smith's stated intention that his office planned to transmit the report to Attorney General Merrick Garland no later than 1 p.m. EST Tuesday.
The special counsel's office assured Judge Cannon in their filing that Smith would not release that specific volume of the report anytime before 10 a.m. Friday and that they would submit a fuller response to Nauta and DeOliveira's emergency motion no later than 7 p.m. Tuesday evening.
Trump's attorneys also sent a letter to Garland demanding he remove Smith from his post and defer the decision about the report's release to Trump's incoming attorney general, Pam Bondi.
"No report should be prepared or released, and Smith should be removed, including for even suggesting that course of action given his obvious political motivations and desire to lawlessly undermine the transition," wrote Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, Trump's defense attorneys who Trump has picked fortop Justice Department postsin the incoming administration.
Trumppleaded not guiltyin June 2023 to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities, and took steps to thwart the government's efforts to get the documents back.
The former president, along with longtime aide Nauta and De Oliveira, alsopleaded not guiltyin a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Smith has been winding down his cases against the president-elect due to a longstanding Department of Justice policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president -- moving to dismiss Trump's federal election interference case and dropping his appeal of the classified documents case -- and has been expected to submit a final report about his investigations to Garland before stepping down.
