by Ben Whedon
“Garland cannot issue the Final Report because Smith is invalidly appointed,” Trump's team argued.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's entire report after Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would release only the portion addressing the D.C. election case.
“Garland cannot issue the Final Report because Smith is invalidly appointed,” Trump's team argued, according to The Hill. “There is, therefore, no authority for Smith to do anything that he did.”
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon previously dismissed Smith's Mar-a-Lago case against Trump, asserting that he was improperly appointed. Smith had brought a separate case in D.C. over his election challenges, though that case was stalled due to court decisions on presidential immunity and Trump's election rendered it defunct.
Trump's team further argued that the sections addressing each case reference one another and that the DOJ's plans to share the report with members of Congress would make it possible for staffers to leak the entire report.
The matter is separate from Trump's request that the Supreme Court
block his Friday sentencing in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's
hush money case. Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying
business records in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney,
Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. He has denied wrongdoing and
contended that both prosecutions were politically motivated.
Ben Whedon
Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-asks-supreme-court-block-release-entire-smith-report
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