Cannon’s ruling could make it easier for the Trump administration to bury the report, which recounts Smith’s investigation into the classified records that Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago home after his first term and his alleged attempt to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see the light of day.