The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity made Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump much more difficult.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the Trump Jan. 6 case breaks little new evidentiary ground but suggests plenty of criticism for the Supreme Court.

Barbara McQuade, who served as a US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, told Salon that “Donald Trump is clearly trying to run out the clock until he is sworn in on Jan. 20,” adding: “Once he gains control of DOJ, he can try to kill the report.”

However, the federal judge continued to block the classified documents case portion of the special counsel's final report.

The evidence wJack Smith’s 137-page report, released overnight less than one week before Trump will be sworn in for a second term as president, is a full-throated justification of his investigation and defense against his myriad critics.

Trump swore to uphold the Constitution in January 2017. He violated that oath in January 2021. Now, in January 2025, he will swear it again. The ritual survives. Its meaning has been lost. In 2022, a prominent conservative intellectual proclaimed that the United States had entered a “post-Constitutional moment”:

A federal appeals court has blocked a move by Donald Trump's lawyers to stop the Justice Department from releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on two criminal cases against the former and future president.

But a Trump-appointed judge’s order temporarily blocks special counsel Jack Smith’s report for up to three more days. Trump can now ask the Supreme Court to intervene It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump would appeal the appellate decision to ...

At least half of the final report could be made public as soon as Tuesday—unless Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon blocks it.

Smith has spent the last two months winding down the two federal criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump and had indicated he would resign before inauguration.