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 acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."
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.
WASHINGTON — During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be President Joe Biden ... building what would become its largest-ever investigation. Long before Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel for the Trump investigations, the department ...
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
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.
EXCLUSIVE: A previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent allegedly broke protocol and played a critical role in opening and advancing the bureau’s original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying President Trump to the probe without sufficient predication.
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.