A federal judge on Jan. 20 turned down a request to release the secret half of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into his investigation of President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said that American Oversight, a group that filed a lawsuit seeking the release of volume two of Smith’s report, had not shown it would be irreparably harmed absent the disclosure.
American Oversight had demanded the secret portion of Smith’s report, saying the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) should be forced to process its Freedom of Information Act request before the Senate voted on whether to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI….