The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.
A former federal prosecutor appeared amused after Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon questioned why there was a rush to push out special counsel Jack Smith's report in his classified documents case,
The Justice Department has released Volume One of special counsel Jack Smith's final report, detailing his election interference investigation into Donald Trump.
Special counsel Jack Smith's report on the Jan. 6 investigation of Donald Trump provides a closing chapter on an unprecedented legal case.
President-elect Trump called former Special Counsel Jack Smith "desperate" and "deranged" for releasing his "fake findings" early Tuesday morning after the Justice Department released Smith's report.
The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity made Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump much more difficult.
The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."
Jack Smith's final report was submitted to the Justice Department on January 7, and that Smith resigned on January 10, a few days before Donald Trump officially took office in the White House.
The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.
President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Justice Department -- former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi -- appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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.