The judges left in place a lower-court injunction that bars the disclosure of the report for three days, and the Justice Department then appealed it.

The Justice Department is pushing to overturn a three-day delay on releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 report after an appeals court denied a bid from President-elect Trump to

The president-elect’s lawyers said public release of the special counsel report would violate his right to an orderly transition to the presidency.

A federal appeals court ruled that the Justice Department can release a report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, but kept in place a judge's order requiring a three-day delay to allow for further appeals.

An appeals court gave Garland permission to release one volume of Jack Smith’s special counsel report after Trump fought to keep it under wraps.

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