AG Merrick Garland intends to release the portion of the special counsel's report related to his election interference case against Donald Trump, according to a filing.
The Justice Department said it would release the first of two volumes centered on the election interference case but would make the classified documents section of the report available only to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for their private review
District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.
But Garland intends to withhold the classified docs report while the case against Trump's co-defendants is ongoing.
But prosecutors say an expected two-volume report detailing charging decisions for Donald Trump should be partially held back.
President-elect Donald Trump is trying to keep Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report summarizing his lengthy investigations into Trump and his allies hidden from public view, as the report could be released as soon as this week if courts and Attorney General Merrick Garland refuse Trump’s requests to keep it private.
Trump tries to block the public from seeing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. Two federal death row inmates don’t want their sentence to be commuted by Biden. And a winter storm starts heading offshore of the eastern U.S. while California braces for high winds.
Trump's attorneys asked Garland to withhold special counsel Jack Smith's final report from the public, arguing its release would be "imprudent and unlawful."
The president-elect’s defense lawyers accused the special counsel of unethical and improper behavior in his prosecutions of their client. They could be in senior Justice Department roles within weeks.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an order temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into Donald Trump.
The Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep the rest of the report under wraps for now.