US Federal judge allows partial release of Trump election subversion report

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump at the end of his first term, had previously blocked the Justice Department from releasing the entire report.

She declined for now, however, a request by the Justice Department to allow congressional leadership to be permitted to review the second part of Smith's report relating to Trump's retention of classified documents and scheduled an emergency hearing on Friday to hear arguments on the matter.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing in both cases.

Attorney General Merrick Garland previously said that he intended to publicly release the first part of Smith's report on Trump's 2020 election subversion to the public, but that he would refrain from publicly releasing the portion on the classified documents case due to the ongoing criminal proceedings against Trump's associates Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.