Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress.

"Release of Volume II to Congress under the proposed conditions … presents a substantial and unacceptable risk of prejudice to [the remaining co-defendants]," U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in her order blocking the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report explaining the now-abandoned classified records retention case against President Donald Trump.

Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.

U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon has denied a request by the Department of Justice to share former special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents report with Congress. The DOJ under outgoing president Joe Biden had requested that the second volume of Smith's report be shared with lawmakers,

Cannon’s ruling could make it easier for the Trump administration to bury the report, which recounts Smith’s investigation into the classified records that Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago home after his first term and his alleged attempt to obstruct efforts to retrieve them.

The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.