Democrats want Merrick Garland to drop the case against Trump’s former co-defendants. Garland’s refusal to do so could help the president-elect.
The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
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.
The Justice Department fired more than a dozen officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, citing a lack of trust in