Garland tells Congress he plans to make Jack Smith report on Trump cases available once courts allow
Source: CNN
Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress he plans to make special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the cases against Donald Trump available to committee leaders and, ultimately, the public, once courts allow, marking the formal end of Smith’s office.
Garland noted he believes even the part of the report about the classified documents case should be public someday.
Garland, in a letter sent Wednesday to House and Senate Judiciary Committee chairs and ranking members, outlines how he wants to confidentially provide to them Smith’s volume on the classified documents case and how he wants to release to Congress and to the public the volume on Trump’s 2020 election interference criminal charges.
Garland specifies he would do so “when permitted to do so by the court.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/merrick-garland-special-counsel-report-trump/index.html
Also, from Newsweek:
"That puts the new Trump administration on the horns of a dilemma," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote Wednesday on Substack.
If the case proceeds, the report remains behind closed doors, but evidence would emerge during trials or plea agreements. Alternatively, if Trump were to pardon the defendants or dismiss the prosecution, Congress would no longer need to keep the report secret, and its details could be made public.

Escape
(157 posts)Well, that about wraps it up.
His hands are tied now.
Nothing he can do.
Darn. It's up to the courts.
2naSalit
(96,270 posts)Is when I'll think he isn't giving us a song and dance.
republianmushroom
(19,279 posts)
Scrivener7
(54,997 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(3,015 posts)Autumn
(47,624 posts)Nah, not even.
republianmushroom
(19,279 posts)47 months and counting
PJMcK
(23,417 posts)What a foolish institutionalist!
That he cannot see the dangerous threats Trump presented to the U.S. illustrates that President Obama made a terrible choice for his Supreme Court pick. In a way, I'm sort of glad Garland didn't make it to the Court.
His performance as AG has been disgraceful. He has let one of the greatest criminals in American history slip through his hands. Pathetic.
We may never survive this as the country that we know and love.
kacekwl
(8,132 posts)Available SOMEDAY. Yea right.
proud patriot
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FakeNoose
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choie
(5,294 posts)Son of a bitch. Why does he have to wait to release the election interference report if the court stay relates to the classified docs case. God damnit!
republianmushroom
(19,279 posts)orleans
(35,841 posts)
Special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his election subversion and January 6, 2021, investigation of Donald Trump can be made public, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, while leaving in place a lower judge’s three-day hold that could give Trump time to ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
more at link
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/special-counsel-report-smith-trump/index.html
NowsTheTime
(1,080 posts)Response to pnwmom (Original post)
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kimbutgar
(24,673 posts)I’m begging to believe he is a closet repuke.
Clouds Passing
(4,239 posts)
SunSeeker
(55,328 posts)johnnyfins
(1,899 posts)So could Garland. The courts excuse is BULLSHIT!!! Enjoy your retirement money, Merrick, whoever is paying it...
Justice matters.
(8,229 posts)he will be toast drowning in lies after lies after lies against him.