Another Huge Trump Legal Victory

We already know that the Justice Department was colluding with Fani Willis, just as the White House was.

Getting Donald Trump through lawfare was a whole-of-government effort, and as the legal cases collapsed under their own weight and the corruption of the prosecutors, the Justice Department has been fighting to hide what they did.

Well, a judge called bulls**t. Now that the federal cases against Donald Trump are dead, cremated, and scattered to the winds in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Justice Department can’t keep hiding the ball.

BREAKING: A federal court ordered the DOJ to provide information on communications between Special Counsel Jack Smith and District Attorney Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President @realDonaldTrump (1/3). https://t.co/IPSO9bMtOo

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) February 4, 2025

I’m not sure whether Pam Bondi, the new Attorney General, would have released these documents anyway, but the American public is about to get another lesson on the lawfare the Biden administration and Democrat attorneys have been waging against Trump.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to provide information on communications between Special Counsel Jack Smith and District Attorney Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump. The Justice Department had continued to object to providing any information even after its prosecutions against Trump were shut down.

Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that because the cases against Trump were closed, the Justice Department’s arguments against disclosure were no longer applicable:

Since DOJ filed its motion for summary judgment and supporting Declaration in March 2024, the Special Counsel’s criminal enforcement actions have been terminated…. The cases are “closed—not pending or contemplated—and therefore are not proceedings with which disclosure may interfere.” … Thus, the agency’s sole justification for invoking the Glomar doctrine under Exemption 7(A) is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, the Court will deny DOJ’s motion for summary judgment and grant the plaintiff’s cross motion. DOJ is directed to process the plaintiff’s FOIA request and either “disclose any [responsive] records or establish both that their contents are exempt from disclosure and that such exemption has not also been waived.”

Judicial Watch has done a lot of excellent work–work that seems extremely tedious to me because I am not and never could be a lawyer–exposing corruption and general malfeasance in the government. Their FOIA lawsuit is likely to prove very embarrassing to Merrick Garland, although it seems unlikely that anybody at the Justice Department would be in legal jeopardy.

Their jobs might be on the line, though, depending on what is found in the documents.

“President Trump truly needs to overhaul the Justice Department from top to bottom. It is a scandal that a federal court had to order the Justice Department to admit the truth that their objections to producing records about collusion with Fani Willis had no basis in reality,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

Judicial Watch has several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits related to the prosecutorial abuse targeting Trump:

In January 2025, the Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order granting $21,578 “attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. Judicial Watch recently received payment.

In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that is targeting former President Donald Trump and other Americans.