Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least for now.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who had dismissed the documents case in its entirety, temporarily barred the Justice Department from releasing Jack Smith’s account of his investigation.

The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A judge has cleared the release of the report compiled by now-former special counsel Jack Smith into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to interfere in the 2020 election.

Amid fights over the report from special counsel Jack Smith, a New York appellate judge denied Trump’s request to delay his hush money sentencing.

Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to temporarily withhold from the American public special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into the president-elect, despite questions about her authority to do so.

The Florida-based judge did not immediately rule on whether the Justice Department can move forward with its plan to show the report to a handful of lawmakers.

The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.