But that is exactly what Smith was trying to do. People noticed. In February 2024, Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who opposes Trump, wrote, “This rush violates Justice Department rules.

Special counsel Jack Smith ... be tried in a court of law.” “This Office made its investigative and prosecutorial decisions based on the same understanding,” Smith says.

One member of the working group will be Mr. Trump’s choice for deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, who represented the ...

Attorney General Bondi’s antagonism toward special counsels underscores the decisiveness of her pivot away from the ...

Early this morning, the Department of Justice released the report of Special Counsel Jack Smith on his investigation ... The report suggests that if the law had moved faster, Trump would be ...

and not of men" and that no "man in this country is so high that he is above the law." In this Aug. 1, 2023, file photo, Jack Smith, US special counsel, speaks during a news conference ...

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report into his ... is new. It shows that Smith did seriously consider whether the law applied but concluded he would struggle to convict Trump under it—not ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith, a Central New York native, said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn ...

His focus is reporting on U.S. law. He has covered human ... along conservative/liberal lines, making Smith's job much more difficult. Special counsel Jack Smith speaks in Washington, D.C ...

The crime that Smith considered stems from the Insurrection Act, a Civil War-era law that criminalizes “whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection ...