After multiple reminders failed to move U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to consider releasing former special counsel Jack Smith's full report on the Mar-a-Lago investigation of President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, a nonprofit group has asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to force Cannon's hand, which the appellate court has done before .

The Knight First Amendment Institute argued Tuesday that the situation requires extraordinary relief , in the form of a writ of mandamus, compelling Cannon to rule on motions to intervene she's been sitting on for roughly half a year.

"Mandamus relief is warranted here because the district court's six-month delay in ruling on the Institute's motion to intervene is manifestly unreasonable," the filing began. "It

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