DOJ Seeks to Release Part of Trump Special Counsel Report (3)

The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to deny an effort by President-elect Donald Trump and his associates to stop the public release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report.

Government lawyers told the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals that Smith has already submitted his final report to Attorney General Merrick Garland and that Garland plans to only release the volume on the criminal probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The department said that Garland, with Smith’s recommendation, had decided not to release the volume about the separate criminal investigation into the ...