{"id":2389363,"date":"2025-01-12T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-smith-report-release-hangs-in-balance-as-prosecutor-exits-doj-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:17:30","slug":"jack-smith-report-release-hangs-in-balance-as-prosecutor-exits-doj-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-smith-report-release-hangs-in-balance-as-prosecutor-exits-doj-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith report release hangs in balance as prosecutor exits DOJ &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjack-smith-report-release-hangs-in-balance-as-prosecutor-exits-doj-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Special\u200b Counsel Jack Smith has submitted his final\u200c report to \u200dAttorney General Merrick \u2063Garland \u2062and has \u200cleft \u2062the Department of Justice. Though, it remains unclear whether this report will be made available\u200d to the public. Currently, the decision lies\u2064 with Judge Aileen Cannon and \u2063the 11th Circuit Court judges, who\u2063 are deliberating on requests made by President-elect Donald Trump and\u2063 his co-defendants to \u2064keep the report confidential. Smith&#8217;s\u200d report consists of two volumes related to the two criminal cases against Trump: the first volume pertains to the January 6th case,\u200c which was ultimately dropped \u200bdue to DOJ policy \u2063against prosecuting sitting presidents, while\u2062 the second volume deals with the classified documents case \u2064in Florida, \u2062which remains active for Trump&#8217;s \u2062co-defendants, \u200dwalt\u200c nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. Nauta\u2064 and \u2064De Oliveira have \u200dasked Cannon \u2063to\u2063 prevent the release of the report to avoid\u2064 any\u200c potential bias against them in their ongoing legal battles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Jack Smith report release hangs in balance as special counsel exits DOJ<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1930682\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Special counsel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jack Smith<\/a>&nbsp;turned in his final report to Attorney General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/merrick-garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Merrick Garland<\/a>&nbsp;and departed the Department of Justice on Saturday, but whether the public will be able to access the report remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Prosecutors are at the mercy of Judge Aileen Cannon or 11th Circuit Court judges, both of whom have been entertaining arguments over the past week from President-elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;and his co-defendants in Florida that the report should stay under wraps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3244792\/national-security-trump-first-term-question-tulsi-gabbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS FROM FIRST TRUMP TERM QUESTION TULSI GABBARD PICK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith&rsquo;s report is two volumes, each corresponding to the two criminal cases he brought against Trump. The first one addresses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-debate-performance-renews-spotlight-on-hur-tapes-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Biden debate performance renews spotlight on Hur tapes - Washington Examiner\">special counsel&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s prosecutorial decisions in the Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C. Smith was forced to terminate the case when Trump won the election because of a DOJ policy that prohibits prosecutions of sitting presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The second volume concerns the classified documents case in Florida, which Smith also terminated against Trump but kept intact for Trump&rsquo;s two co-defendants, Walt Nauta, and Carlos De Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p>Nauta and De Oliveira have urged Cannon, a Trump appointee, to block Garland from releasing the entire special counsel report, saying it would prejudice them as they continue fighting their charges. Trump submitted an amicus brief supporting their argument.<\/p>\n<p>Garland has indicated that he intends to make volume one public and make volume two available only to the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees.<\/p>\n<p>Cannon has put a wrench in Garland&rsquo;s plans by temporarily blocking the whole report from being released while she hears arguments from Nauta and De Oliveira about it. It is unclear when she or the 11th Circuit will issue a final order on the matter, but neither report is likely to see the light of day anytime soon if a decision is not made before Trump takes office in a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3261510\/us-catch-china-race-critical-minerals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW THE US CAN CATCH CHINA IN CRITICAL MINERALS RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors told Cannon in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/67490069\/692\/united-states-v-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filing<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday that the first volume of the report mentions the classified documents case in Florida only twice and that the report is entirely irrelevant to Nauta and De Oliveira. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">prosecutors made similar remarks<\/a> to the 11th Circuit as they implored the appellate judges to quickly step in and overrule Cannon&rsquo;s temporary order.<\/p>\n<p>The first volume &ldquo;has nothing to do with these defendants, and the district court had no authority to enjoin the release of a report about a different case against a different defendant that was brought (and since dismissed) in a different court,&rdquo; prosecutors wrote to the appellate court.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s attorneys, meanwhile, have fumed over the prospect of the report being released after they had a chance to review a draft of it in Washington a week ago. In a letter to Garland, they said that putting out the report would cause a &ldquo;media storm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-loses-bid-to-block-garland-from-releasing-special-counsel-report-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump loses bid to block Garland from releasing special counsel report - Washington Examiner\">unfair criticism&#038;rdquo<\/a>; that would interfere with Trump&rsquo;s transition into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>They also pointed to Cannon&rsquo;s decision earlier this year to toss out all of the classified documents charges against Trump and his co-defendants after she found that Smith&rsquo;s appointment as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rejects-hunter-bidens-bid-to-dismiss-tax-charges-over-special-counsel-argument-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Judge rejects Hunter Biden\u2019s bid to dismiss tax charges over special counsel argument - Washington Examiner\">special counsel violated<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Constitution<\/a>. Smith has an appeal to her decision pending against Nauta and De Oliveira.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s attorneys said the report functioned as a &ldquo;partisan weapon&rdquo; and that in it, Smith criticizes X, &ldquo;baselessly attacks&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s incoming administration officials, and affords Trump no presumption of innocence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The release of any confidential report prepared by this out-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-demand-garland-withhold-jack-smiths-report-partisan-weapon-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump attorneys demand Garland withhold Jack Smith\u2019s report: \u2018Partisan weapon\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">-control private citizen unconstitutionally posing<\/a> as a prosecutor would be nothing more than a lawless political stunt, designed to politically harm President Trump and justify the huge sums of taxpayer money Smith unconstitutionally spent on his failed and dismissed cases,&rdquo; the attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1930682\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1930682\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Smith&#8217;s report release uncertain as he leaves DOJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2389366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cannon-special-counsel.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7076,32463,48365,48364],"class_list":["post-2389363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-doj","tag-jack-smith","tag-prosecutor-exit","tag-report-release"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cannon-special-counsel.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389368,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389363\/revisions\/2389368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}