Mar-a-Lago judge issues weekend order allowing Trump to oppose release of Jack Smith's report [View all]

Source: Law & Crime

Dec 15th, 2025, 10:16 am


After ignoring, for months on end, the reminders from groups interested in shedding sunlight on ex-special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report, the judge who tossed out the prosecution is letting President Donald Trump register his opposition, as he requested roughly two weeks ago.

The brief Sunday order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who remains on an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deadline to rule on two groups' attempts to intervene for the purposes of lifting an injunction blocking the release of Volume II of Smith's report, stated only that Trump's motion to participate as a friend of the court or amicus curiae was granted. "No additional filings are permitted by this Order," Cannon added.

The order comes not long, relatively speaking, after Trump on Dec. 2 sought to back the efforts of his former classified documents case co-defendants, valet Waltine Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira, keeping Volume II of Smith's report hidden.

That day, Trump requested "leave to participate in the proceedings as amicus curiae for the limited purpose of reaffirming and incorporating by reference his prior legal arguments to the Court, as well as those made by co-defendants Nauta and De Oliveira, that Volume II of Jack Smith's Final Report should not be made public."

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