Former special counsel Jack Smith is set to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning, a high-profile appearance that will reopen debate over his now-dismissed criminal cases against President Donald Trump, placing Smith under sustained scrutiny he largely avoided while the prosecutions were active.

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President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, but an exact timeline is murky.

After a monthslong battle and obvious annoyance, Trump finally relented this week and approved Republicans voting in favor of the bill introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY). In a post on Truth Social after signing the bill, Trump boasted that, “This latest Hoax will backfire on the Democrats just as all of the rest have!”

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The House Oversight Committee released a sweeping report on Tuesday finding that senior aides to former President Joe Biden exercised presidential powers without his knowledge or consent, aiding in his signing of executive actions, directing policy, and managing his public appearances as his cognitive decline worsened.

The 90-page report, “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” accuses Biden’s inner circle of running the government in his stead and concealing his medical deterioration through stage-managed appearances and manipulated decision processes. Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the findings raise “constitutional and criminal concerns” about the validity of executive actions taken between 2021 and the end of his term in office.

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