Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.

The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.

The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

The firings come as a Trump appointee opened an internal review of the department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses.

Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira had been charged with conspiring with the president to obstruct an FBI investigation.

Fortenberry represented Nebraska until resigning in 2022 following an initial conviction in a jury trial in California. That conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in a ruling that said the case instead should have been filed in Nebraska or Washington, D.C.