Summary

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s criminal cases.

The injunction will last until three days after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on a related case involving Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

Nauta and De Oliveira argue that releasing the report could jeopardize their right to a fair trial.

Cannon, who previously ruled Smith’s appointment unconstitutional, issued the order to “preserve the status quo” pending appellate decisions.

  • DrFistington@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s not going to look good for her or Trump when the evidence is released that his campaign directly paid for travel and lodging for groups of people that assaulted the Capitol

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      18 hours ago

      Do you honestly believe that there is anything that could be written in that report that would make a difference? I don’t even mean something plausible. I mean literally anything. Because I don’t. It could say that Trump invented time travel and used it exclusively to help Hitler kill more Jews and nothing meaningful would happen. That has been proven over and over again and yet we’re still constantly hearing “yeah but this time it will be taken seriously”.

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        17 hours ago

        It wouldn’t make a difference to Trump supporters, but drawing a clear financial support line between him and the insurrectionist would prove treason. At that point the military could step in, or really anyone that’s taken the oath of service, and they would be justified