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Rather than attempting to assert his constitutional responsibility to read Jack Smith's Volume Two in Aileen Cannon's court, where it might respond to Trump's attacks on him there, Jamie Raskin released a letter asking Garland to take some procedurally uncertain route to release it.

The worst part of Jack Smith's Special Counsel Report is how he described Donald Trump intimidating witnesses, but didn't describe why he chose to respond with a gag rather than an indictment.

Pro tip for all Trump's nominees to high-level positions: if you don't like hypotheticals, you're lusting after the wrong job. Here's why.

As part of Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein's summary of the Jack Smith report, they argued that "Smith [came] to Garland's defense" regarding his conduct of the January 6 investigation before Smith was appointed, pointing to Smith's review of certain legal fights, to include the Executive Privilege fight.

Smith comes to…