Democrats ramp up calls to release Jack Smith’s special counsel report on Trump classified documents case
House Democrats plan to urge a federal judge in Florida to unseal former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report, escalating their push to obtain the document ahead of Smith’s deposition...
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House Democrats plan to urge a federal judge in Florida to unseal former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report, escalating their push to obtain the document ahead of Smith’s deposition with Congress next week. The 19 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said, according to an amicus brief reviewed by Fox News Digital on Friday, that Judge Aileen Cannon’s longstanding order blocking the release of the report, which details Smith’s investigation and prosecution of President Donald Trump related to classified documents, had no basis and unconstitutionally hindered Congress from performing its duties. "The continued suppression of [Volume II of Smith's report] now serves only to obstruct the constitutional processes by which the political branches oversee one another and report to the American people," the brief reads. JACK SMITH PUSHES FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY TO CONFRONT ‘MISCHARACTERIZATIONS’ OF TRUMP PROBES The Democrats, led by ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., also sent a demand letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi , the latest of several letters they have sent to her on the matter, saying she had no justification for withholding the special counsel report. They said the decision to keep it from the public was "baffling" and that Cannon's order did not bar the DOJ from handing the report over to House lawmakers. They also said Bondi could easily ask Cannon to unseal it, but she has not done so. JACK SMITH DEFENDS SUBPOENAING REPUBLICAN SENATORS’ PHONE RECORDS: ‘ENTIRELY PROPER’ "This Administration has repeatedly boasted that President Trump is ‘the most transparent and accessible president in American history.’ Your campaign to bury Mr. Smith’s report makes a joke out of that claim," the Democrats wrote. "You are permitting prosecutors to be hauled before Congress to defend their work while denying Congress and the American public the written record that would explain it." Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ for comment. House Judiciary Republica…