NEW: Jack Smith Suffers One Final Legal Defeat On His Way Out The Door – EVOL

After years of striving to put President Donald Trump behind bars, much of Jack Smith’s work might never see the light of day.

On his way out the door, the former special prosecutor suffered one final humiliation at the hands of Florida U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who ruled that Smith would not be allowed to present his findings in the classified documents case to Congress. A ruling by Cannon on Tuesday prevents the U.S. Department of Justice from sending copies of Smith’s report to the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

Cannon wrote in her decision that there is “no urgent need” for Smith to inform lawmakers about his investigation, given that Trump has been elected and carries the power to dismiss his own federal cases.

“Given the very strong public interest in this criminal proceeding and the absence of any enforceable limits on the proposed disclosure, there is certainly a reasonable likelihood that review by members of Congress as proposed will result in public dissemination of all or part of Volume II,” she wrote.

Earlier this month, Smith released his first report on the election interference case, which relied on mostly public information and did not shed much new

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