A legal battle in the classified documents case reveals contrasting views on justice and power as the outgoing and incoming administrations clash. Attorney General Garland's adherence to DOJ policy, while seemingly neutral, may inadvertently benefit Trump's efforts to keep Jack Smith's report confidential.
Just days ahead of Donald Trump ’s inauguration, there’s a legal battle playing out in the classified documents case that captures how the outgoing and incoming administrations view justice and wield power. It’s a state of affairs in which Attorney General Merrick Garland playing it by the book will effectively aid Trump ’s bid to keep special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the documents case under wraps. Here’s where we’re at, and where we may be headed.
No matter how the case likely disappears, its disappearance would remove the reason to hold back the public release of Smith’s documents report. But of course, Garland would be gone by then, and it would be Trump’s attorney general — and whatever distance they do or don’t have from Trump’s personal legal priorities — that decides how to handle the report.
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