Barbara McQuade, who served as a US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, told Salon that “Donald Trump is clearly trying to run out the clock until he is sworn in on Jan. 20,” adding: “Once he gains control of DOJ, he can try to kill the report.”

District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

At least half of the final report could be made public within days, unless Trump gets the Supreme Court to block it.

A federal appeals court has blocked a move by Donald Trump's lawyers to stop the Justice Department from releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on two criminal cases against the former and future president.

Special counsel Jack Smith was finalizing his report about Trump's two indictments for release as early as Friday if the judge hadn't blocked it.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress he plans to make special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the cases against Donald Trump available to committee leaders and, ultimately, the public, once courts allow,

The volume of Smith’s report covering the investigation into whether Trump withheld White House documents won’t be released.

The DOJ immediately launched legal action after winning an appeal on a point of law as it seeks to make the report public before Trump takes office.

Republicans, and some Democrats, have blasted Biden's attorney general for his handling of Jack Smith's appointment and release of a report on Donald Trump.

The fracas over the release of Smith’s Trump investigation findings is a good example of the kind of issues judges wish they didn’t have to decide.