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."
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.
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.
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
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.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred the Justice Department from sending the report to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary committees.
Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see