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Democrats are split on whether President Joe Biden should use his authority and presidential immunity to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on his cases involving President-elect Donald Trump.

"Article III Project" founder Mike Davis tells Newsmax that special counsel Jack Smith, "could be subjected to a criminal probe by the Trump 47 Justice Department for running what looks like a criminal conspiracy against President Trump and his aides and supporters to interfere in the election.

Trump allegedly tried to keep Mike Pence mentally isolated and said people would "hate his guts" if he certified Biden's 2020 win.

Let’s be totally and completely clear: President Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity.

Donald Trump lashed out at Jack Smith in a borderline incoherent late-night rant after the special counsel released a report finding Trump was part of an “unprecedented criminal effort” to overturn the 2020 election.

President Joe Biden on Friday said he was still considering whether to give pardons to people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters at the White House,

Andrew Weissmann, former top official at the Justice Department, Glenn Thrush, New York Times Justice Reporter and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at New York University joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to a federal judge allowing the release of Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s election interference case,

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on Donald Trump's role in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.has been released.

Online users discussing this rumor pointed to an NBC News article published in the final days of Joe Biden's U.S. presidency.

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,