A federal appeals court has ordered Judge Aileen Cannon to decide within 60 days whether to lift her injunction blocking the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s second report on Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, setting up another potential clash in the long-running case.

Newsweek contacted the DOJ for comment via email outside of normal office hours on Tuesday.

Why It Matters

A federal appeals court’s order giving Cannon 60 days to decide whether to release Smith’s still-secret report on Trump’s handling of classified documents matters far beyond the case itself.

At stake is not only public access to a key account of how Trump allegedly tried to obstruct the retrieval of government secrets from his Mar-a-Lago home , but also the broader question of how much power

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