A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Justice Department cannot share special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents report with members of Congress.

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon extended the hold she had placed blocking the DOJ from sharing with four lawmakers Smith’s report on his probe into President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

“In short, the Department offers no valid justification for the purportedly urgent desire to release to members of Congress case information in an ongoing criminal proceeding,” Cannon wrote in an order published Tuesday, the day after Trump returned to office.

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