SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH is closing up shop, with a final task ahead of him: the drafting and filing of reports to outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland on his investigations and indictments of Donald J. Trump.
Which means Smith now has fewer than seventy days to complete his work—including his final report.
with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.”
Garland must then “notify the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committees of each House of Congress.”.
Smith must decide whether to complete two separate reports covering the two distinct investigations or a single report encompassing both.
It’s worth keeping an eye on two categories of information that could be released in Smith’s final reports: classified information and grand jury records.
In the meantime, anyone who worked on the investigations—prosecutors, FBI agents, paralegals, analysts—will have to worry about getting a new job. »