Special counsel Jack Smith’s team had asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision blocking the report’s release in favor of Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Mar-a-Lago,

The president-elect would rather Jack Smith’s report never sees the light of day. Luckily for him, he has an ally.

The Justice Department on Wednesday asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the defense attempt to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. The DOJ said it doesn’t intend to publicly release the volume of the report related to the classified documents case while the case remains pending against Donald Trump’s former co-defendants,