Legal expert reveals why he thinks Jack Smith's recent Trump filing is 'incredibly strong'
Special counsel Jack Smith filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals a request that Judge Aileen Cannon be struck down from her intervention in blocking the release of a Justice Department report on Donald Trump's cases.
It was a filing that one legal expert thinks could have an impact.
Former FBI general counsel and Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC that the special counsel intends to fight Judge Aileen Cannon's attempt to block the final report on the Trump cases.
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"The government's filing is incredibly strong," said Weissmann.
Smith, "had actually recommended that the volume two of the report relating to Mar-a-Lago [documents] not be made public because there are two defendants who could be prejudiced by the two codefendants of Donald Trump. So, that was something that was new and makes it clear that Judge Cannon didn't need to issue her decision."
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he would release the Smith report on Jan. 6 and the 2020 election to the American public. However, he must now wait for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to supersede Cannon.
"Judge Cannon sort of preemptively said everything is stayed," he recalled.
"That clearly seems like an improvident order on her part. I wouldn't be surprised for them to say he has the go-ahead to go forward with the January 6th report being made public," said Weissmann of the appeals court. "It seems highly unlikely there is any argument to prevent that from happening."
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