Both the Justice Department and the judge who oversaw the case were asked to stop the public release of the report.

District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. Her order prevents Smith and the Justice Department from moving forward with releasing the report until the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals has time to review the emergency motion by Trump’s codefendants to block the report’s release.

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report until an appeals court acts on a request from Donald Trump's co-defendants in the criminal case accusing the president-elect of illegally handling classified documents,