The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Cannon’s ruling stated that Garland, the Department of Justice, Smith, and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” could not publish any part of the report until three days after the Eleventh Circuit ruled on the case.

A judge has cleared the release of the report compiled by now-former special counsel Jack Smith into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.

Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida stepped back on Monday from an earlier ruling that purported

The Florida-based judge did not immediately rule on whether the Justice Department can move forward with its plan to show the report to a handful of lawmakers.

Judge Aileen Cannon gave Attorney General Merrick Garland the green light on Monday to release special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his 2020 election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump.

The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.