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."
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.
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 Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.
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
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.
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.
The DOJ on Wednesday moved to dismiss the criminal charges against Trump's co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The post ‘With prejudice’: Trump’s DOJ moves to drop charges against president’s co-defendants in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case first appeared on Law & Crime.
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.