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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:16 AM Jan 16

House Democrats urge Garland to 'take all necessary steps' to release Jack Smith's report on Trump classified docs case

Source: ABC News

January 16, 2025, 5:13 AM


Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are urging outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland to "take all necessary steps" to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's handling of classified documents -- and they're encouraging him to drop the remaining charges against the president-elect's former co-defendants in order to do so.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who earlier this week allowed the Justice Department to release the first volume of Smith's report, which covers his election interference case against Trump, has temporarily blocked the release of the second volume covering the classified documents case due to the DOJ's ongoing prosecution of longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago staffer Carlos De Oliveira, Trump's former co-defendants in the case.

"As Attorney General, it is incumbent upon you to take all necessary steps to ensure the report is released before the end of your tenure, including, if necessary, by simply dismissing the remaining criminal charges against Mr. Trump's co-conspirators, Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira," the 18 Democratic committee members wrote in a letter obtained by ABC News.

Cannon, who last year threw out Trump's classified documents case, plans to hold a hearing Friday on whether to make the Volume Two of Smith's report available to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Because the Justice Department has said it will not publicly release the second volume of the report while charges are pending against Nauta and De Oliviera, the Democrats, led by ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, called on Garland to dismiss the charges ahead of Trump's inauguration next Monday.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/house-democrats-urge-garland-steps-release-jack-smiths/story?id=117729318

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House Democrats urge Garland to 'take all necessary steps' to release Jack Smith's report on Trump classified docs case (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 16 OP
Right. I'm sure he'll get right on it. ananda Jan 16 #1
Yawn. No rush. Yawn. Institutionalist. Yawn. Looking forward. Comfortably_Numb Jan 16 #2
Hopefully he will do so, republianmushroom Jan 16 #3
He's going to slow roll this Quanto Magnus Jan 16 #4
A stern letter Cirsium Jan 16 #5
Garland could give it to Biden. JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 16 #6
What's the hold up ? kacekwl Jan 16 #7
Crap, all he has to do, is accidently send it to some publiisher, then viola! It's out there for the public to see. SWBTATTReg Jan 16 #8

JustABozoOnThisBus

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6. Garland could give it to Biden.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 02:22 PM
Jan 16

Biden could declassify it with a thought, then give it to the Contrarian.

This could be done by lunchtime tomorrow.

SWBTATTReg

(24,757 posts)
8. Crap, all he has to do, is accidently send it to some publiisher, then viola! It's out there for the public to see.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:19 PM
Jan 16

What gets me is that the American public deserves to see this report, in full. Why is it, that every such type of report like this, we have to play pussy foot w/ them releasing the contents of such reports? It's BS.

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