#jack-smith

#jack-smith

First of all, that moment where the member of Congress addressed and blamed the police officers was an outrage, ridiculous, and an embarrassment, and I think undermined the points they were trying to make. To your question, Brianna, the last congressman we saw brought up the fact that Jack Smith demanded a trial date four months out, five months out, in a case involving 13 million pages of documents,

Theoretically, what happens if there is election interference and the people who are responsible for that are not held accountable? Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal asked. It becomes the new norm, and that becomes how we conduct elections, Smith replied, according to the transcript. And so the toll on our democracy, if you had to describe that, what would that be? the congresswoman asked. Catastrophic, Smith said.

Former special counsel Jack Smith and three other former prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are starting their own law firm, which will launch in January, Law.com reports.

Trump and his Republican allies, including Senator Tom Cotton, have accused Smith of violating the Hatch Act... Cotton accused Smith of being a partisan Democrat who weaponized the law against Trump.