"Release of Volume II to Congress under the proposed conditions … presents a substantial and unacceptable risk of prejudice to [the remaining co-defendants]," U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in her order blocking the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report explaining the now-abandoned classified records retention case against President Donald Trump.

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The Justice Department has withdrawn all criminal charges against Trump's co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, in the classified documents case. Judge Aileen Cannon had dismissed the case earlier,

U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon has denied a request by the Department of Justice to share former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents report with Congress. The DOJ under outgoing president Joe Biden had requested that the second volume of Smith's report be shared with lawmakers,

In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.

Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.

The Justice Department has halted its appeal, which was aimed at reinstating the criminal charges against Trump's employees.

Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?

After Donald Trump narrowly won the United States' 2024 presidential election, then-special counsel Jack Smith announced that he would no longer pursue his two federal cases against him. Smith, citing the U.