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

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 legal turmoil over the public release of Volume I of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report continued over the weekend, with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon again weighing in despite lacking any jurisdiction over the Mar-a-Lago case, because it’s currently on appeal, or the Jan. 6 case in DC, over which she never had jurisdiction.

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

Attorney General Merrick Garland wants to send special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s classified documents case to select members of Congress.

Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least for now.

Trump’s lawyers want to keep Judiciary committee leaders from getting the report at least until Monday’s inauguration - and perhaps, as a result, for good. U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has scheduled an afternoon hearing to weigh their arguments that prosecutors’ plans for a limited disclosure of Smith’s findings into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of efforts to retrieve them would undermine his presidential transition “and his ability to govern our nation going forward.