In a new ruling released Tuesday, Cannon granted a request from Trump's co-defendants, his aides Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, to deny the Department of Justice 's request to release the report. The move blocks the report from being shared with the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

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

Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.

The Trump appointee said the DOJ couldn’t justify “the purportedly urgent desire” to share information about the ongoing criminal case.

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.

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

Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.

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.

The ruling means the volume of Smith’s report on the 2020 election case could be released any time after midnight.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigation ... as Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a request to delay the report’s release—though Trump ...

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress.

Cannon’s ruling could make it easier for the Trump administration to bury the report, which recounts Smith’s investigation into the classified records that Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago home after his first term and his alleged attempt to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.