Special counsel says Trump's election prohibited case from going to trial. Here is the news to know on Tuesday.

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IF THESE WERE “NORMAL” TIMES, Pam Bondi almost certainly would not be confirmed as attorney general. But these are far from normal times, and with her leading the Department of Justice under a re-elected Donald Trump, the times are likely to get a whole lot less normal.

Pam Bondi cast herself as an independent prosecutor who would keep politics out of the Justice Department if confirmed as President Trump’s attorney general. Senators on both sides predicted she would be confirmed.

On a radio show last August, she compared special counsel Jack Smith to “a rabid dog” after he brought ... She registered as a foreign agent for the government of Qatar for work related to anti-human-trafficking efforts leading up to the World Cup ...

After more than a decade of defending Trump, Pam Bondi is now the president-elect's nominee to be the country's top prosecutor and reform the Department of Justice.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should not be allowed to share the report outside the Justice Department, adding that it contained information that had not been made public.

The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.

The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.

This week on Capitol Hill, President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks faced scrutiny by Senators and among the most anticipated was the questioning of Attorney General hopeful Pam Bondi. Former lead investigator for the January 6 Select Committee Tim Heaphy discusses Bondi’s hearing and special counsel Jack Smith’s final statements on his probes into Trump.

Six months after she dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon can now decide whether to squash the release of Jack Smith's report, too.

As far as I am aware, with the release of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s criminal culpability for the events of Jan. 6, 2021, Trump is the first person in American history to be investigated by two separate special counsels.