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Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release part of special counsel Jack Smith's report about election interference charges against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office, even though the charges were dismissed.But the government will withhold part of the report about classified documents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

A federal judge blocked the release of the entire report Tuesday, based on a request from two of Trump's co-defendants in the classified-documents case. But government lawyers argued in a filing at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the restriction on the portion of the report about election interference charges was unnecessary and unjustified.

Smith prepared the report in two volumes, one about Trump's charges of election interference and one about the documents case. Department lawyers said Garland plans to release the volume on election charges, but the second volume about the classified documents would not be released publicly as long as charges remain pending against two of Trump's co-defendants.

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