'Undue': Judge Cannon slammed by appeals court after Jack Smith's report on Trump delayed
Source: Raw Story
November 3, 2025 2:15PM ET
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to stop delaying the release of the remaining parts of special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
In September, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and American Oversight asked the appeals court to force Cannon to release the report. Cannon had blocked former President Joe Biden's Justice Department from releasing the report in January.
"By keeping this order in place, Judge Cannon is undermining both accountability and the rule of law," American Oversight Director Chioma Chukwu noted. Trump appointed Cannon during his first term.
"There is no legitimate reason for the report's continued suppression, and it should be posted on the court's public docket without further delay," Knight Institute Director Jameel Jaffer insisted.. On Monday, the appeals court ordered Cannon to stop delaying the report's release.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/aileen-cannon-jack-smith-report/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.93247/gov.uscourts.ca11.93247.11.0.pdf
REFERENCES
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143492789
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143539884
chicoescuela
(2,497 posts)johnnyfins
(3,254 posts)scotus"
I wish that was a joke.
johnnyfins
(3,254 posts)Real, right????
debsy
(707 posts)no_hypocrisy
(53,773 posts)such as suspension, or better, disbarment.
The Wizard
(13,488 posts)is indictable.
riversedge
(78,834 posts)have a better chance of someone hitting on her license. IMHO
"Accordingly, Petitioners have established undue delay in resolution of their motions to intervene and the petitions for writs of mandamus are HELD IN ABEYANCE for a period of 60 days to allow the district court to fully resolve the motions."
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Akakoji
(450 posts)Or does the GOP DOJ get involved?
Grins
(9,100 posts)So about 02 January
?
And if she doesnt
?
onenote
(45,848 posts)At which time, the parties seeking release of the report will appeal that decision to the 11th Circuit, which may or may not reverse Cannon, but probably won't do so for months and months.
The order from the 11th Circuit doesn't compel her to grant the motions seeking release of the report.
Attorney General Merrick Garland followed this procedure, but the public release of the report was complicated by ongoing legal battles and court orders:
Submission Process: Special counsel regulations dictate that at the conclusion of the investigation, the special counsel provides the AG with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions.
AG's Discretion: Garland made public the reports from other special counsels (Robert Hur and John Durham) in their entirety and intended to do the same with Smith's report to inform Congress and the public.
Legal Challenges: Lawyers for Donald Trump and his co-defendants sought to block the report's release, arguing it contained prejudicial information and that Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.
Court Rulings: A federal judge, Aileen Cannon, temporarily blocked the release of the entire report while an appeal regarding the co-defendants was pending. An appeals court later cleared the way for the release of the volume concerning the election interference case, but the volume on the classified documents case remained under a court-ordered prohibition from public release while charges were still technically pending against co-defendants.
Public Release: The Justice Department ultimately released the volume of the report on election interference, while agreeing not to publicly release the documents case volume out of fairness to the co-defendants.
https://tinyurl.com/4d6rht4p
For the record, Robert Mueller couldn't release his Russian collusion report either without the AG's approval. James Comey also had to get approval to release his report on Hillary's e-mails.
Bluetus
(1,923 posts)What prevents Smith from just releasing it himself -- as a memoir if necessary.
Polybius
(21,175 posts)He can not legally release it on his own.
Bluetus
(1,923 posts)He can certainly go on TV shows and talk about what he found. He can write his memoirs including what he found. There is nothing illegal about that. He can't disclose classified information, but Trump said he declassified all of it, so that isn't an issue.
BurnDoubt
(1,244 posts)republianmushroom
(22,078 posts)And if she doesn't release the remaining parts of special counsel Smith's report of the mishandling of classified documents. by trump. what will happens to her, not a damn thing.
yellow dahlia
(4,014 posts)onenote
(45,848 posts)According to Raw Story, 'the appeals court ordered Cannon to stop delaying the report's release.'
But, in fact, all the 11th Circuit did was order Cannon to resolve the motions seeking the report's release within 60 days. The 11th Circuit order does not compel Cannon to grant the motion for the report's release.
BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)From the order -
ducted any other further proceedings on the pending motions.
Accordingly, Petitioners have established undue delay in res-
olution of their motions
It's a "slam" given the history of this case, the Appellate court that handed it down, and the fact that the order was so brief, without any extensive explanations or equivocating.
Kicking it down the road to allow for resolution seems standard to minimize overrule for not allowing enough time to resolve what has already dragged on for many months (knowing there is classified info involved), should it be appealed to the SCOTUS.
onenote
(45,848 posts)Thats the characterization of the 11th circuit order from a group that has more expertise in such matters than Raw Story. And saying there has been undue delay by Cannon in taking up the pending motions is not a slam its a recitation of the minimum legal standard for mandanusand even though the minimum standard was met, the court of appeals still gave Cannon another60 dayshardly a slam against her.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/appeals-court-puts-cannon-on-the-clock-regarding-jack-smith-report-or-else-extraordinary-relief-will-follow/amp/
BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)I use "Law & Crime" extensively as a source, mainly because about 90% of the time, they will link to the court filings and I can include them in the OPs.
They were LATE doing their article on this subject (I saw it hours after I posted this, i.e., it wasn't "publicly" linked/featured on either their main page or under their "High Profile" category at a time corresponding to the date/timestamp they list for publication - something that is common among too many news sites), but in their article, they also have this -
which is also an emphatic that acknowledges the strength of the Court's "rebuke" synonymously noted in this OP article's headline.
This is the same Court that has ""slammed her before", with a slightly longer ruling explanation.