Trump lawyer fully backs Cannon for 'correctly' keeping Jack Smith from speaking on 'so-called' Mar-a-Lago report

Source: Law & Crime

Jan 19th, 2026, 10:53 am


Responding to a motion that seeks to put an appeal on the fast track, an attorney for President Donald Trump told a panel of judges that Judge Aileen Cannon "correctly" denied efforts to bring to the light of day Jack Smith's "so-called" final report on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents and obstruction probe.

The Friday filing from attorneys for Trump and his former co-defendants Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, including a lawyer who failed in November to convince the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a "frivolous" RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, asked the same appellate court — one which has multiple times chided Cannon — to delay two nonprofit groups' attempts to appeal the adverse ruling.

Asserting those efforts by the Knight First Amendment Institute and American Oversight lack "any basis" and "failed to demonstrate good cause," Trump lawyers said Cannon was correct to leave an injunction in place that has blocked the release of Volume II and played a key role in blocking Jack Smith from speaking publicly about his "so-called 'Final Report,' regarding his unlawful investigation and prosecution in the Southern District of Florida."

"The District Court correctly denied Appellants' motions to intervene on two primary grounds: first, that American Oversight and Knight Institute lacked any basis to intervene in this closed criminal case to assert statutory Freedom of Information Act ('FOIA') interests," the filing said, "and second, that they lack any basis to intervene where the document at issue is not a 'judicial record' subject to the public right of access under common law and the First Amendment."

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