With special counsel Jack Smith’s final reports the subject of litigation and just over a week remaining until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, lawyers are skeptical about whether his findings will ever become public.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has made a mess of the tendentious dispute over the public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago prosecutions. But it may not matter for long if the case ends up before the Supreme Court.