BURSTPresident-elect’s lawyers ask attorney general to stop release of outgoing special counsel Jack Smith’s report
Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked attorney general Merrick Garland to stop special counsel Jack Smith from completing his report detailing his investigations of the president-elect. Should Garland decline to do that, they propose that the decision to release the report be made by whoever becomes attorney general when Trump takes office.
The position is likely to be filled by Pam Bondi, the former top prosecutor in Florida who Trump nominated to lead the justice department and after his initial pick, former congressman Matt Gaetz, decline the job amid allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use.
Donald Trump Jr is scheduled to arrive in Greenland today, the massive island that his father has talked about the United States buying from Denmark. We’ll see how that visit goes.
Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the US Capitol today, with Kamala Harris laying a wreath on his casket and eulogizing him at 4.30pm ET.
The House of Representatives will vote on the Laken Riley Act, an early step in the forthcoming Republican crackdown on undocumented immigrants that would mandate they be taken into custody by immigration authorities over theft charges.
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