UPDATE: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected on Monday night Donald Trump's request to keep Volume One (Jan. 6 case) of Special Counsel Jack Smith's blocked from public release beyond midnight.

The brief order (see below, in blue) was posted to the docket around 11:30 p.m. Monday.

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BREAKING: In a last-ditch effort on Monday night, Donald Trump asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to extend her injunction purporting to block the Justice Department from releasing the volume of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report relating to the January 6 case.

The Justice Department quickly opposed the request.

Earlier Monday, Cannon — while insisting that she still has jurisdiction to be issuing this injunction at all — denied the effort by the two Trump staffers who remain as defendants in the case — Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira — to extend her injunction as to Volume One, relating to the January 6 case. She extended her injunction as to Volume Two, relating to the classified documents case.

As such, unless something changes, Cannon’s temporary injunction issued on January 7 will end at the end of the day Monday as to Volume One — at which point DOJ could release it.

It is for this very reason that Trump filed his request. In it, his lawyers noted: “Government counsel advises that the government opposes the relief requested herein, and that ‘the Department intends to release Volume I after midnight, when the injunction expires.’ Given this urgency, President Trump respectfully requests that the Court enter an order extending the status quo injunction before the Department’s stated time of release elapses.”

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