Garland tells Congress he plans to make Jack Smith report on Trump cases available once courts allow

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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

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Also, from Newsweek:

While the classified documents part of the report will not be released to the public at the moment, it will be made available to certain members of Congress charged with judicial oversight and kept private while the case is ongoing, the DOJ said in a filing with an Atlanta-based federal appeals court.

"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.

https://www.newsweek.com/merrick-garland-donald-trump-legal-dilemma-jack-smith-2012309