Justice Department lawyers said the plan is to release a special counsel report about Trump's election interference charges, not classified documents.

Special counsel Jack Smith revealed Wednesday that Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to make public the portion of Smith’s final report pertaining to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election case.

Special counsel Jack Smith has been working on a final report to be completed before Trump's inauguration, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release only the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with Donald Trump’s plans to subvert the transfer of power after his loss in the

Several months after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, FBI investigators began pursuing a tantalizing tip suggesting that Donald Trump had possibly met with members of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that took part in some of the most brutal violence that day,

AG Merrick Garland intends to release the portion of the special counsel's report related to his election interference case against Donald Trump, according to a filing.

But Garland intends to withhold the classified docs report while the case against Trump's co-defendants is ongoing.

Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding US Attorney General Merrick Garland block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s “Final Report.”

In a filing, Garland outlined his intentions to publicize the final memo on Trump’s 2020 election subversion case, which constitutes “volume one” of Smith’s report, while handing the controversial details of Trump’s classified documents case to the chair and ranking member of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

Trump's attorneys asked Garland to withhold special counsel Jack Smith's final report from the public, arguing its release would be "imprudent and unlawful."

Attorney General Merrick Garland is praising Justice Department prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 riot cases as Donald Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of those cases.