Special counsel Jack Smith was finalizing his report about Trump's two indictments for release as early as Friday if the judge hadn't blocked it.

On Tuesday, there was a flurry of activity in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s defunct classified documents case. Florida-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon—who dismissed this case six months ago—issued an order blocking Smith from publicly releasing a final report of his investigation.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress he plans to make special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the cases against Donald Trump available to committee leaders and, ultimately, the public, once courts allow,

AG Merrick Garland intends to release the portion of the special counsel's report related to his election interference case against Donald Trump, according to a filing.

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the defense attempt to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. The DOJ said it doesn’t intend to publicly release the volume of the report related to the classified documents case while the case remains pending against Donald Trump’s former co-defendants,