House Democrats are urging Merrick Garland to take all necessary steps to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on Donald Trump's handling of classified documents.

The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report stated it had enough evidence to convict Donald Trump, stating “the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.” MSNBC's Ari Melber reports on the newly released Jan.

The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.

The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

Jack Smith's report says prosecutors could have convicted Trump had his election win not prevented the case from proceeding.

Special counsel Jack Smith's report on the Jan. 6 investigation of Donald Trump provides a closing chapter on an unprecedented legal case.

Westmount Mayor Christina Smith will not seek re-election, she announced Friday. “Everyone kept asking,” whether she’d run again, Smith said Friday. “And I wanted to be honest.” Smith said she made the decision months ago.

So far this year, the most consequential publisher in America is the United States government. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department posted online a grim PDF with a title that defies all marketing advice: “Final Report of the Special Counsel Under 28 C.F.R. § 600.8.”

"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others must fail."