The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.
With the public release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the saga of Donald Trump's federal prosecution for election interference has come to an end,
Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Democrats wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter, urging him to release special counsel Jack Smith’s full report related to President-elect Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents.
Smith’s letter cited John Adams for the “fundamental value of our democracy that we exist as ‘a government of laws, and not of men.’” But our prized “rule of law” must inevitably be administered by men and women who are subject to being undermined by political attack.
U.S. Attorney Hayden O'Byrne asked the appeals court to dismiss the classified documents case in a way it could not be appealed again.
The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
Gabbard is the forty-seventh president’s pick for director of national intelligence, but in order to actually get the job, she’ll need the support of every single Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee—and it appears that she currently does not have the votes.
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
The DOJ on Wednesday moved to dismiss the criminal charges against Trump's co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The post ‘With prejudice’: Trump’s DOJ moves to drop charges against president’s co-defendants in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case first appeared on Law & Crime.