The race against the clock is on, with 10 days until inauguration and Trump’s takeover of DOJ, when the prosecutions and the reports are likely to be buried.

AG Merrick Garland intends to release the portion of the special counsel's report related to his election interference case against Donald Trump, according to a filing.

District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

A federal appeals court has blocked a move by Donald Trump's lawyers to stop the Justice Department from releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on two criminal cases against the former and future president.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress he plans to make special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the cases against Donald Trump available to committee leaders and, ultimately, the public, once courts allow,

Donald Trump's lawyers are trying to block Jack Smith from publishing a final report on the special counsel's two failed prosecutions of the President-elect and are requesting that he be fired before Trump's inauguration on January 20.

The volume of Smith’s report covering the investigation into whether Trump withheld White House documents won’t be released.

The DOJ immediately launched legal action after winning an appeal on a point of law as it seeks to make the report public before Trump takes office.

He’s hoping to get SCOTUS to nix his sentencing in New York, even as he tries to persuade the Eleventh Circuit to bottle up Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report long enough for incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi to burn every copy.

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The fracas over the release of Smith’s Trump investigation findings a good example of the kind of issues judges wish they didn’t have to decide.