The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order that had blocked the agency from releasing any part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on Donald Trump.

Jack Smith rebuked Trump for claiming his two criminal cases were politically motivated, calling the president-elect's claims "laughable."

Jack Smith’s ‘Secret’ Vendetta Special Prosecutor Jack Smith claims “he could have convicted Trump had Trump not won the presidency,” but he could hardly say he’d “spent all that time and money, and stirred up the country so much,

The section of Smith's report that deals with Donald Trump's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss could be released as soon as Tuesday.

The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

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Trump allegedly tried to keep Mike Pence mentally isolated and said people would "hate his guts" if he certified Biden's 2020 win.

The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity made Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump much more difficult.

The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon not to issue an immediate ruling raised the possibility that President-elect Donald J. Trump would take office in the meantime and have power over the report’s release.

So far this year, the most consequential publisher in America is the United States government. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department posted online a grim PDF with a title that defies all marketing advice: “Final Report of the Special Counsel Under 28 C.F.R. § 600.8.”

"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others must fail."