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 has been working on a final report to be completed before Trump's inauguration, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has indicated he would make public any special counsel report — with the necessary redactions — that reaches his desk.

In the letter, Trump’s attorneys argued that releasing the report — a culmination of the evidence Smith gathered against the incoming president — would illegally interfere with the presidential transition.

Both the Justice Department and the judge who oversaw the case were asked to stop the public release of the report.

Lawyers for Donald Trump have reviewed a draft of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report related to federal investigations into the president-elect and are threatening legal action if he releases it,

Lawyers for Trump and his former co-defendants take action to shut down report on probe into classified documents cache and election interference

In the letter to Garland, Trump’s attorneys said that releasing a public narrative of the evidence Smith gathered — in the classified documents case as well as the federal election conspiracy case over Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election — would illegally interfere with the presidential transition and be little more than a political attack.

The special counsel has a last opportunity to make the case against the president-elect, whom he could never drag before a jury.

President-elect Donald Trump and his former co-defendants in the Florida classified documents case launched an effort Monday to block the release of a final report by special counsel Jack Smith that also addresses the election interference case.

Co-defendants in Donald Trump's since-dismissed classified documents case are calling on a federal judge to bar Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing his so-called Final Report on his investigation.