Jack Smith Just Filed 165 Pages on Trump. Here's What's Hiding in the Redactions
Jack Smith's 165-page brief unsealed in Trump's Jan. 6 case; DOGE drops 7 years of Medicaid data; SEC & CFTC launch joint crypto sprint — all on the same morning.
HIGH ALERT
Jack Smith's 165-page unsealed brief keeps the century's most significant federal criminal case alive, while DOGE's Medicaid data dump and a joint SEC/CFTC crypto sprint make this one of the more substantive policy mornings of 2026.
Key Developments
Start with the document no one was supposed to see yet.
A **165-page brief from Special Counsel Jack Smith** just hit federal court — partially redacted, partially explosive, and entirely focused on one question: how much of the original Trump indictment can survive the Supreme Court's immunity ruling?
Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the document this morning, and Washington is still processing what's inside.
Here's the short version: Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment — that means a revised version — that strips out the portions of the original case the Supreme Court's 2024 immunity ruling now protects.
Specifically, Smith removed Trump's conversations with the Department of Justice from the core charges [45].
**That was the Supreme Court's condition.** Official acts get immunity. So Smith worked around it, narrowing the case to focus on what the court said it could still examine.
One legal observer posted on X: "Smith removed Trump's conversations with the DOJ to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. This is the case where Trump wanted to deprive Americans of having their vote counted [47]."
Critics on the right pushed back hard. "Donald Trump faces new political persecution as Biden/Harris DOJ decides to move forward," one conservative commentator posted [46].