I know. It’s clear that they know they will get away with it too, they aren’t even trying to be cute about it.
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
An article on Slate claims that Cannon really has no jurisdiction over the release of the report. If that is true, why doesn’t DOJ just go ahead and release it? Why doesn’t the 11th rule on the appeal involving the claim that Smith is an unconstitutional appointment? My understanding is that this is not a difficult case and precedent is clearly on DOJs side.
Cite:
The crux seems to be:
Exactly. So why doesn’t the 11th grow a backbone (or some other body part) and make a ruling? Explain it to me like I’m five. Along with the consequences of DOJ releasing the full report on everything in spite of Cannon’s ruling. Would/could Trumps DOJ charge Garland with something?
Has the DoJ appealed the ruling to the 11th circuit? Unless they have an appeal before them, they have no power to intervene in a lower court decision.
Lawyers are officers of the court. Wilfully disobeying a court order can get a lawyer disbarred.
Worth it
There must be non-lawyers with access to it.
Releasing the report will accomplish nothing other than provide fodder to the media cycle to play out the case in the court of public opinion. I really doubt that there is a smoking gun so damning to Trump that any of his supporters would give two shits about it. Sad but true.
The right wing media would call out the release of the report agaisnt an (illegal) judges order as a evidence of a continuing left wing circle jerk against the choosen one. 
Just because he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue without losing voters doesn’t mean the public shouldn’t be made aware of it.
What Joey_P said.
If it gets released, it will be published and future historians will be able to find it. Trump is already trying to re-write history on Jan 6, and other events. Once in office, all evidence will evaporate. The object is not to show a smoking gun to his supporters, but to provide evidence for future historians,
In the future, there is likely to be historians who will try to figure out what happened. Of course, they will find conflicting explanations, but we have to trust future historians will have the ability to separate the truth from the lies. They can’t do that if all that is left is lies and innuendo.
Couldn’t Biden order the DOJ to release it? And, since this would, I think, be an official presidential act, he would have immunity against Trump’s retaliation. So, wouldn’t the DOJ personnel like Garland also be protected because they followed a presidential order? If Biden says release it and the courts say no, what does Garland do? Garland works for the President in the Executive branch (even though he’s supposed to be independent).
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed Cannon’s challenge to keep Jack Smith’s election-interference report from being released, though there likely still will be delays:
Good. Now cue Trump asking the Supreme Court to block the release in five…four…three…
And I’m not hopeful they won’t.
I’m pretty sure Biden could request a copy for Presidential review, and then give that copy to the press. He’s the President, he can do anything he wants (according the the Supreme Court). That lets Garland and the rest of the DoJ off the hook.
I really hope somebody leaks it, I’m not particular as to who it is. If Trump is trying this hard to stop it, you can guarantee it doesn’t say flattering things about him.
I shared that on Xitter, tagging Biden’s and POTUS’s handles, and shared that on FB.
And now, this:
(Gift link.)
From the article:
The special counsel departed after his efforts in the courtroom were essentially rendered moot by Mr. Trump’s political victory in November. Under a Justice Department policy prohibiting the pursuit of prosecutions against a sitting president, Mr. Smith was compelled to drop both of the cases he had filed against Mr. Trump in 2023 — one in Florida, accusing him of mishandling a trove of classified documents, and the other in Washington, on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
Mr. Smith’s final week was marked by one more legal setback at the hands of Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the Trump-appointed jurist presiding over the Florida documents case: She temporarily blocked public release of his final report until at least Monday.
Applicable to both this case and the January 6th Insurrection case.
Heartbreaking.
From the OP…
… but, apparently, not soon enough.
Nothing would have stopped what Cannon and the Supreme Court were willing to do in order to stop these cases.
You can imply that this was a failure of the DOJ, but it wasn’t. It was a failure of our justice system further up, in places that are frankly terrifying. The judiciary is corrupt in some pretty important places now.
Jeff Tiedrich always called him “Jack Smith, who prosecuted war criminals in the Hague”, and it gave me hope that there would someday be justice.
Anyway, goodbye Mr. Smith.