By Robert Nowinski
Youtuber and Attorney Devin Stone, better known as Legal Eagle, is suing the FBI & DOJ to make sure that all the records from the investigation of Trump’s recent crimes of retaining classified government documents and overturning the 2020 election are available to the public. The announcement video has reached almost 1.5 million views at time of writing.
In his words, “I, along with my co-council, believe that the American people have the right to know what the Department of Justice and the FBI discovered when they investigated Donald Trump, and so we filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colombia to challenge the DOJ’s failure to FOIA request for this historically important information.” The lawsuit was filed on November 22nd, 2024, against the DOJ, components including the FBI, the Office of Information Policy, and the special counsel’s office for “Failing to expedite [the] FOIA request.”
Interestingly, special counselor Jack Smith, who was the lead investigator against Trump on the recent cases, is leaving the Justice Department before Trump enters office, and Trump is planning to fire any lawyer who worked with him on the case. Normally, career attorneys are protected from political retribution, so firing them would have to be done soon. The team at Legal Eagle can legally do this via “The Freedom of Information Act,” which was published in 1967, which “requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.” This is important because the Trump administration cannot get rid of it if the team receives it first.
Trump also expects his new attorney general to “bury the entire Smith investigation.” This is bad since it could basically be rewriting history. Another reason they are trying to get this is because the DOJ might not see a reason to preserve the documents. With the documents disappearing, people wouldn’t know what happened.
This is an important case and it will be interesting to see what happens.
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