About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.
The DOJ asked a federal court to dismiss its case against two men indicted for allegedly helping Trump conceal classified documents. Prosecutors dropped Trump from the case after his election win.
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
The Department of Justice, now under new leadership, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump's co-defendants.
The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.
Abrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling -- US President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to a Justice Department he accuses of unjustly prosecuting him.
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,
DOJ had continued prosecuting Trump aides Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira even after it dropped its case against Trump after his successful election. Now that case too, is going away.