Trump makes last-ditch effort to block midnight release of Jack Smith's final report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Nor should the Court permit the Department to do so until providing President Trump a full and fair opportunity to be heard on these enormously consequential questions.
42% : "The Government, driven by political priorities that have no place in a criminal trial setting, seeks to strong-arm its way through this orderly process and has repeatedly failed to abide by established rules and procedure," the lawyers wrote.
31% : Trump pleaded not guilty in 2023 to 40 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information and took steps to thwart the government's efforts to retrieve them from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
26% : The former president, along with Nauta and De Oliveira, pleaded not guilty in a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago.Trump also pleaded not guilty in 2023 to separate charges of undertaking a "criminal scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election in an effort to subvert democracy and remain in power.
17% : "Trump's attorneys argue in the filing that Cannon should grant their request because she has still not yet ruled on their previous motion to intervene in the case, and they list a host of previously raised grievances that they say show Smith has "already abused his office to engage in an egregious series of public attacks on President Trump.
16% : Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case, rule that the Justice Department can publicly release Volume One, covering Smith's election interference case against Trump -- but reserved ruling on whether the DOJ can make Volume Two, on Smith's classified documents probe, available to congressional leadership for review.

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