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A former federal prosecutor predicts President Donald Trump's latest bid to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's report hidden is about to fall apart.

Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney, said in a Thursday episode of "Talking Feds" that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is likely to reject a request from Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta to delay a November 2 oral argument over the release of Volume II of Smith's report.

Volume II covers Smith's investigation into Trump's alleged hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, has blocked its release since dismissing the case on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed....

President Donald Trump is using his midterm schedule to stall a hearing on Jack Smith's classified documents report, a former U.S. attorney says.

Joyce Vance, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, laid out the maneuver Tuesday in an article for her Substack newsletter Civil Discourse, arguing the president's latest bid for a delay deserves a swift rejection.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently moved oral argument up to November 2, one day before the midterm elections, in a case where two news organizations are seeking to intervene and push for the release of Volume II of Smith's report, which covers the Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon withheld the report on Inauguration Day and later rejected the outlets' bid to join the case, and the Justice Department is now on Trump's side....

President Donald Trump went after former special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday, a day after photos of Smith at a Maryland music festival spread across social media.

"Deranged Jack Smith is a Crooked Prosecutor!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

His post linked to a Just the News story headlined "Ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith sports Springsteen 'No Kings' shirt at 'Power to the People Fest.'"...

Dave Grohl had a message for Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Saturday night, and he delivered it with his shirt.

The Foo Fighters frontman took the stage at the Power to the People Festival in Maryland wearing an Iowa Hawkeyes T-shirt. Music site Consequence called the shirt a "not-so-subtle reference" to Schmitt's botched attempt to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury earlier in the week. Smith was in the crowd.

Grohl then dedicated "My Hero" to "my new friend Jack," Consequence reported....

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was warned that texts he used to accuse former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury were unvetted.

Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee cautioned Schmitt ahead of Smith's testimony Tuesday that the Justice Department texts had not been verified, a source with direct knowledge of the conversation told MS NOW for a report on Wednesday. Schmitt went ahead and used them anyway.

According to the source, Schmitt had asked GOP staffers for material tying Smith's investigation of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' Georgia case. His team was given access to the texts after showing interest, but committee staff made clear that checking the information was their job, the source said....

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton ripped his own party for bringing former special counsel Jack Smith to Capitol Hill weeks before the midterms.

Singleton, appearing on CNN alongside Democratic strategist Paul Begala, didn't mince words when host Kaitlan Collins asked what went through his mind as he watched the already infamous moment from the hearing where Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) botched a perjury trap.

"You know, I don't care about this, and I'll tell you why," Singleton said....