Jack Smith

The "Talking Feds Podcast" opened this week with a discussion about the next steps for the Justice Department as special counsel Jack Smith gets the full report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election.

Speaking on the panel was former prosecutor Harry Litman, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann, former impeachment lawyer and ethics czar Norm Eisen and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

This hasn't been the best year for Donald Trump, and next year is shaping up to be even worse.

The former president's company was convicted of tax fraud this month and faces civil charges from New York attorney general Letitia James, he faces possible prosecution from the Department of Justice and in the state of Georgia -- and his political fortunes seem to be slipping with Republicans, reported CNN.

Legal experts Andrew Weissmann, Maya Wiley and Charles Coleman all agreed that it's officially the beginning of the end of Donald Trump. It's an expectation that has been heard before, but even with the previous special counsel, there was a "policy" that the Justice Department would protect the president.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked his panel of two lawyers and a professor to join in a kind of thought experiment. "You get hired, Andrew Weissmann, as the new legal team. They fire their old lawyers and they want you. You get the briefing book with the rundown of the legal issues facing your client. Your forced client says to you am I going to be indicted? You say what?"

Former Republican Congressman David Jolly (FL) saw the new poll showing Donald Trump at just 40 percent in the 2024 matchup against Ron DeSantis' 35 percent.

Meanwhile, people like Mike Pence and Nikki Haley are hovering around 7 percent and 4 percent respectively.

According to legal experts who have pored over the final report from the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 riot that forced lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to flee for their lives, the Department of Justice and, in particular, special counsel Jack Smith, have been handed a powerful document that provides a detailed roadmap that should lead to criminal indictments.

The report notes that Donald Trump is the centerpiece of the 800-page report that one legal scholar claimed went far "beyond a call for heads to roll."

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at President Joe Biden, the January 6 committee, and his other perceived rivals in two Truth Social posts on Christmas Eve.

"The Unselect Committee’s January 6th Report is a Hoax, no different than RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of the other Scams that the Disinformation laden Democrats have been planting for years," Trump wrote. "If I weren’t leading by a lot in the Polls, against both parties, this continuation of falsehoods and lies would end quickly. I won in 2016, did much better in 2020 (RIGGED!), and the Radical Marxists don’t want to run against me or MAGA in 2024. I had almost nothing to do with January 6th. FREE SPEECH!"

A member of the House select committee investigating last year's deadly assault on the US Capitol said Friday that former President Donald Trump could spend the rest of his life in prison.

During an interview on Yahoo News’ "Skullduggery" podcast, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) described Trump as the "kingpin" of the attack on the Capitol and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

On CNN Friday, legal expert Evan Perez suggested that the House Select Committee on January 6 still has evidence against former President Donald Trump that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith still doesn't possess.

This comes after the committee released its 845-page final report on the attack on the Capitol that outlined Trump's culpability in the plots to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots on Friday in a video in which he accused the committee members of being "Marxists."

At the start of the video, Trump accused the committee of pushing claims made by former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson about him purportedly lunging at a Secret Service agent in his presidential limo to try to force him to drive him to the Capitol.

Without explanation the Department of Justice has continued to block the Senate Intelligence Committee from accessing the highly classified documents that former President Donald Trump was storing at his Mar-a-Lago property.

According to Punchbowl News, there is equally shared bipartisan outrage with the DOJ keeping Congress at arm's length from accessing the documents, leaving Congress in the dark of vulnerabilities and comprised information, especially to foreign entities at such a critical time in international relations on several fronts.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election published its final report Thursday. What will follow, however, are some recommendations that are also sent to Congress in the form of legislation that can prevent another similar attack in the future.

Among the recommendations listed in the report, the committee believes that the 14th Amendment should be used to bar insurrectionists from serving in any office in the future, Bloomberg legal reporter Zoe Tillman cited.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election published its final report Thursday, which includes conclusions about those responsible for Trump's fake electors scheme.

A group of Republican fake electors claimed that they were the true electors and signed letters to that effect that were then sent to Washington. The goal was to either get Vice President Mike Pence to accept the fake slate of electors or throw things into additional chaos.

In a column for the Bulwark, attorney and former Department of Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig explained that, while the criminal referrals from the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot carry no legal weight, it would be hard for special counsel Jack Smith to lightly regard them and not follow up with indictments.

On Monday, the committee held its last public hearing and followed that by asking the Department of Justice to investigate and indict Donald Trump and several close aides and advisers over their connection to not only the insurrection but also efforts to subvert the election and then cover up their efforts.