President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Justice Department -- former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi -- appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.
The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his dueling criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump.
Even after the resignation of the special counsel, the Florida jurist resists releasing his summation of the classified documents prosecution.
Mr. Smith, a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, had signaled that he would step down before Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election interference case, but not the classified documents case.
The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.
The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.
Using President-elect Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity to prevent members of Congress from viewing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Trump's alleged retention of classified documents would be a "significant and unprecedented extension" of the Supreme Court's presidential immunity doctrine,
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.