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Judge blocks release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump documents case

Aerial view of Mar-a-Lago club
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump permanently barred the justice department on Monday from releasing the former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the president’s mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club after his first term.

The ruling by US district judge Aileen Cannon marked the latest effort to stop the report from being sent to Congress or otherwise becoming publicly available.

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