The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was sent to Congress on Tuesday after US District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to block its release. Smith in the report reiterated his decision to bring charges and said Trump,

Jack Smith wrote that Donald Trump would have been convicted had the case been allowed to proceed and explained why he didn’t pursue charges of incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

This is a pop-up edition of Slate’s Keeping Up With the Trump Trials. You can read our old coverage of Trump’s legal entanglements here. Right as Donald Trump is preparing to take the oath of office to become the 47 th president of the United States,

Jack Smith held on to hope that he would be the one to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his assaults on the rule of law and American democracy. Bringing his experience prosecuting war criminals at the Hague to the Department of Justice,

Special counsel Jack Smith, a Central New York native, said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election,

Trump’s re-election in 2024 prevented his conviction for crimes tied to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, argues special counsel Jack Smith’s report.

President-elect Donald Trump gloated on social media early Sunday morning, erroneously claiming that special prosecutor Jack Smith was "fired" by the Department of Justice in the days before Trump was set to retake the White House.

Smith led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents. Trump suggested he might seek retribution.

However, the federal judge continued to block the classified documents case portion of the special counsel's final report.

Kris Mayes asked for the report to help prosecute "one of the only remaining cases" against alleged fake electors