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

Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration.

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.