District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

The president-elect’s defense lawyers accused the special counsel of unethical and improper behavior in his prosecutions of their client. They could be in senior Justice Department roles within weeks.

MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate magazine, talk with Alex Wagner about Trump judge Aileen Cannon "grabbing authority and power she does not have to return what has now become a predictable result for Donald Trump,

Trump tries to block the public from seeing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. Two federal death row inmates don’t want their sentence to be commuted by Biden. And a winter storm starts heading offshore of the eastern U.S. while California braces for high winds.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has maneuvered President-elect Donald Trump into a precarious legal position, creating what one legal expert described as "horns of a dilemma." The Justice Department told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that Garland intends to release the full volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report related to Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The volume of Smith’s report covering the investigation into whether Trump withheld White House documents won’t be released.

Trump's attorneys asked Garland to withhold special counsel Jack Smith's final report from the public, arguing its release would be "imprudent and unlawful."

Special counsel Jack Smith was finalizing his report about Trump's two indictments for release as early as Friday if the judge hadn't blocked it.

Donald Trump's lawyers are trying to block Jack Smith from publishing a final report on the special counsel's two failed prosecutions of the President-elect and are requesting that he be fired before Trump's inauguration on January 20.

Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump pleaded with a federal appeals court to block special counsel Jack Smith's report on 2020 presidential election subversion. After Attorney General Merrick Garland informed the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that he intended to release part of Smith's report,

Attorney General Merrick Garland informed Congress in a letter Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith has concluded his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. Garland informed members of Congress -- as required by internal department regulations -- that at no time did he interfere in to overrule Smith during the process of his investigation,