House Democrats demand Bondi release special counsel report on Trump classified documents case

Source: Courthouse News Service

December 12, 2025


WASHINGTON (CN) — House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Friday pressed the Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi to release special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. And the lawmakers, who accused Bondi of suppressing the special counsel investigation while simultaneously authorizing Smith to testify to Congress, are also readying to petition a federal court to lift an injunction that has long blocked the report’s release.

Though the Justice Department early this year dropped the classified documents case against Trump following his election victory, Smith’s report has remained under wraps thanks to a January order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon, a Trump appointee, reasoned at the time that publishing the report would threaten defendants in ongoing cases and that Congress had not yet requested its disclosure for legislative purposes.

But in recent weeks, the House Republican majority has turned its attention to Smith as it probes federal prosecutions against Trump under the Biden administration. The Judiciary Committee earlier this month issued a subpoena to the former special counsel ordering him to appear before lawmakers for closed-door testimony. The Justice Department has authorized Smith to testify — a fact that Democrats said in a Friday letter to Bondi was “baffling” given the agency’s refusal to publish his classified documents report.

“While claiming DOJ is willing to engage in ‘extraordinary accommodation,’ you continue to deprive Congress and the American people of the single most important and comprehensive account of that investigation, in clear violation of DOJ’s consistent practice of publicly releasing reports of special counsel investigations,” said the lawmakers, led by Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin.

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