Judge Cannon agrees to dismiss Jack Smith's final report on classified documents

Donald Trump's legal team successfully petitioned Attorney General Merrick Garland and Judge Aileen Cannon to withhold special prosecutor Jack Smith's final report on the classified documents case. According to the president-elect's defense, they prefer to leave it up to the future attorney general whether to release the report or not.

The motion to Judge Cannon was filed on the anniversary of January 6. That motion was accompanied by a letter from Trump's legal team addressed to Merrick Garland. Canon granted the motion of Trump's defense and ordered in a ruling on Tuesday that the report not be made public.

In that letter, according to The Hill, the lawyers inform Garland that they have already partially reviewed special counsel Smith's report. According to the defense, the release of the report will not proceed because it contains information that Smith allegedly accessed improperly.

The requests made to the Justice Department and the judge are shared by the other defendants, in this case of the classified documents seized at the Mar-a-Lago residence.

"The Final Report relies on materials to which Smith, as disqualified special counsel, is no longer entitled access — making his attempt to share such materials with the public highly improper," the defense attorneys said.

The case still affects Trump's two co-defendants, but not the president-elect, since the prosecution led by Jack Smith eventually dropped the charges against the Republican because the events in question occurred during his term in office.