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Trump Justice Dept. fires employees tied to Jack Smith probes as officials launch review of Jan. 6 cases
America, in a Final Defeat for Jack Smith, Moves To Dismiss Mar-a-Lago Charges Against Trump’s Employees
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
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Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team
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,
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are pushing the attorney general to drop the charges against Trump’s co-defendants to cinch the dosser’s release.
The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.
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.
The Justice ... Jack Smith's final report on his investigation into Donald Trump's 2020 election interference efforts. Trump faced four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy ...
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Smith’s letter cited John Adams for the “fundamental value of our democracy that we exist as ‘a government of laws, and not of men.’” But our prized “rule of law” must inevitably be administered by men and women who are subject to being undermined by political attack.
Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss its appeal in the Mar-a-Lago case, pushing to bring an end to the classified documents case. The motion, which comes after the U.S. Attorney’s
House Democrats are demanding answers on the Justice Department’s move this week to fire more than a dozen officials involved in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, arguing the action was in “complete contradiction" of President Trump’s effort to keep a “merit-based system" for government employees.
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.
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
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