To the editor: Harry Litman did not answer the most important question in his article about the need for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to submit a final report on the two federal cases regarding January 6 and the classified documents.
Public final reports, like those by former special counsel Robert Mueller, have many blacked out pages, blacking out critical parts of the most important information. Smith may have filed briefs to dismiss the cases now and allow them to be brought up again, but that will never happen, not in President-elect Donald Trump's lifetime.
The real question Litman or others should answer: How can all the detailed information Smith gathered be saved for historians?
All video, audio and transcripts of FBI interviews, grand jury testimony, details of transferred documents, all plans and people involved in state-level election schemes – this documentation must be kept somewhere safe of Trump so that the truth comes to light. be known in the future. Does such a place exist?
Steve Synnott, La Cañada Flintridge
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To the editor: Smith decided not to pursue Trump's prosecution not because Trump is innocent, but because we have a Supreme Court and a Department of Justice that have made a mockery of the Constitution.
The machinations of the conservative court granted immunity to the head of this convicted felon: a disgrace.
A weak lawyer. General Merrick Garland allowed further erosion of the rule of law – a disgrace.
The only way to half redeem this outrageous frustration of justice is to let the public read the case Smith has created.
Eileen McDargh, Dana Point
