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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:23 PM Jan 15

DOJ pushes for select members of Congress to review Jack Smith's classified docs report

Source: ABC News

January 15, 2025, 11:05 AM


The Department of Justice is continuing its push to release the remaining volume of special counsel Jack Smith's final report to select members of Congress.

In an overnight court filing, Justice Department attorneys pushed back on Trump's former co-defendants in his classified documents case, saying their argument seeking to block the release of that portion of Smith's report "rests entirely on conjecture."

Last week, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon -- who last year dismissed the classified documents case -- temporarily blocked Attorney General Merrick Garland from making the volume available to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and on Monday set a hearing for this Friday to consider Trump's former co-defendants' argument that the limited release would be prejudicial to their case as the government appeals Cannon's dismissal.

Lawyers for the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe argued in the filing that co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira have failed to show how a federal judge in Florida has the right "to intrude on the Attorney General's prerogative to manage the Justice Department's interactions with Congress."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-pushes-select-members-congress-review-jack-smiths/story?id=117699326

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DOJ pushes for select members of Congress to review Jack Smith's classified docs report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 15 OP
No comment gab13by13 Jan 15 #1
Jack Smith supervised a LARGE TEAM of DOJ lawyers *who did the actual work* BumRushDaShow Jan 15 #2
Why not the American public, what is the DOJ hiding ? republianmushroom Jan 15 #3

BumRushDaShow

(146,897 posts)
2. Jack Smith supervised a LARGE TEAM of DOJ lawyers *who did the actual work*
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:28 PM
Jan 15

He was basically their supervisor/manager/team lead. His appointment was temporary. THEY are career civil servants (with some who were probably on detail from other offices to work on the cases).

Maybe take a break from this?

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