January 4, 2025, will go down in history as the release day for Volume 1 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Final Report on the Trump January 6 Election Case. After being faced with so many news headlines about it, I went on a search for the volume 1 document and found it on Document Cloud.
Yes, today is the day the Department of Justice (DOJ) released Volume One of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged election interference. The report, made public just days before Trump’s inauguration, details the decision to charge Trump criminally for his actions following the 2020 election. Smith’s report emphasizes that the charges were based on the severity of the offense and the certainty of the evidence. However, the DOJ decided to dismiss the case before Trump takes office, citing constitutional prohibitions against indicting a sitting president.
