Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump. The resignation comes amid legal wrangling over the release of the report, which details investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents.
Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump , Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington.
At issue now is the fate of a two-volume report that Smith and his team had prepared about their twin investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The appeals court on Thursday night denied an emergency defense bid to block the release of the election interference report, which covers Trump's efforts before Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to undo the results of the 2020 election. But it left in place Cannon's injunction that said none of the findings could be released until three days after the matter was resolved by the appeals court.
Justice Department regulations call for special counsels to produce reports at the conclusion of their work, and it’s customary for such documents to be made public no matter the subject.
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