At issue now is the fate of a two-volume report that Smith and his team had prepared about their twin investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to block the Justice Department from releasing a report on Donald Trump, which is expected to detail investigations conducted by Special Counsel Jack Smith over attempts to subvert the election results and for mishandling classified documents.

President-elect Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing his hush money criminal case sentencing to move forward by not criticizing the justices, instead going after his trial judge. The high court in a 5-4 decision refused Trump’s last-ditch emergency request to block Friday’s sentencing in New York as he appeals his immunity claims,

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

Trump’s sentence of an unconditional discharge confirms he will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

The judge overseeing the hush money case against President-elect Trump sentenced him to "unconditional discharge," meaning he will remain a convicted felon but will face no further penalty or jail time.

President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction.

A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge, closing the case with no punishment