The DOJ and two former Mar-a-Lago classified documents case co-defendants of President Donald Trump have jointly given the federal judge remembered for torpedoing the special counsel's probe a reason to keep the second volume of Jack Smith's report hidden from the public.

In a brief Monday status report , Trump valet Waltine Nauta, Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira, and the DOJ took stock of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals' order last month . The order set a 60-day deadline for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to rule on two groups' attempts to intervene, following her "undue delay."

The would-be interventions of the Knight First Amendment Institute and American Oversight have sat untouched since February, not long after the newly minted Trump administration DOJ volu

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