Harry Litman - Standing Watch: The Case for Preserving Trump Records of Crimes
In George Orwell’s classic depiction of an authoritarian society, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a key component of political control is the state’s erasure of history: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten … every date has been altered. … After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains.”
That is the state of affairs Donald Trump would like to produce regarding the federal cases against him, which special counsel Jack Smith has developed in painstaking detail over the last two years.
Given Trump’s impending return to the White House, Smith now has two months to wrap up his cases. The primary question left for him and the Justice Department’s leadership is whether to produce a report on the Jan. 6 and classified documents cases and, if so, what it should contain.
The special counsel regulations that govern Smith require him to provide a confidential report to Attorney General Merrick Garland explaining his decisions for or against prosecution. Garland has already made it clear that if he receives a report from Smith, he will exercise his discretion to make it public.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/standing-watch-the-case-for-preserving
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