U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the public release of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation into whether President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents after his first term in the White House. In an order filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Cannon wrote that the report should not be released outside of the Justice Department "due to the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Smith and Attorney General Bondi’s deliberative-process determination." Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote that Smith and his team prepared the report for months after she dismissed the classified documents case in July 2024, ruling that his appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. The Justice Department under President Joe Biden appealed that ruling, with then-Attorney General Merrick Garland telling NBC News that Smith's appointment was constitutional and valid.…