Nearly a year after Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump, a good government group is demanding the release of Volume II of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
American Oversight, a non-partisan watchdog group, has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, asking the court to vacate Cannon’s gag order and allow the documents to be released. Under the current gag order, the documents are exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests.
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American Oversight has repeatedly asked Cannon to lift her gag order, having sought the documents via a FOIA lawsuit earlier this year. In addition to new details on Trump’s behavior in relation to h