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.
Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its reputation for independence after four turbulent years under former President
House Democrats are urging Merrick Garland to take all necessary steps to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's handling of classified documents.
Cannon’s ruling stated that Garland, the Department of Justice, Smith, and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” could not publish any part of the report until three days after the Eleventh Circuit ruled on the case.
The Department of Justice discloses a plan to share the special counsel’s findings before the president-elect takes office.
Garland will withhold from public release a second volume of the report describing Smith’s second case against Trump for amassing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
House Democrats ask Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the charges against President-elect Trump's former co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
House Judiciary Democrats penned a letter Wednesday asking outgoing U.S. Attorney General Merrick ... Jack Smith's report. Smith resigned from the Justice Department on Friday. Garland said ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed to restore public faith in the Justice Department but became a punching bag for partisans across the political spectrum.
After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in: trying to defend it against political attacks.
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department urged its ongoing independence.