About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.
The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”
Fla., joined 'The Faulkner Focus' to discuss her initial reaction to the firings and how House Republicans are going to work to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.
A federal judge slammed special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday and accused his office of seeking to deny two former co-defendants of President Trump a fair trial by releasing a final report on the
Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's appeal, a move that moves the process a step closer to ending the classified documents case against President Donald Trump. The motion still has to be approved by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to The Hill newspaper.
Fox News contributor Byron York discusses the Justice Department's decision to fire employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith in prosecuting President Donald Trump on ‘America’s Newsroom.
In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”