The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.

The judges left in place a lower-court injunction that bars the disclosure of the report for three days, and the Justice Department then appealed it.

But in a court filing, the department indicated that it would release a separate report about Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election as soon as possible.

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

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who had dismissed the documents case in its entirety, temporarily barred Jack Smith from releasing the results of his investigation to the public.