Trump’s Lawyers Seek to Block Special Counsel Report in Classified Documents Case NYT | Top Stories By: Alan Feuer 7 January 2025 at 22:37 Both the Justice Department and the judge who oversaw the case were asked to stop the public release of the report. © Saul Martinez for The New York TimesA motion filed in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Monday asked Judge Aileen M. Cannon to bar the special counsel, Jack Smith, from publicly releasing a report he plans to write about his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump.