Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
President Donald Trump had been charged with crimes by special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents.
The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."
The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?
Donald Trump is no longer expected to impose a 25 percent tariff on Colombian imports after President Gustavo Petro accepted flights of deported migrants from the U.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.
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.
Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.
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.”
Gabbard is the forty-seventh president’s pick for director of national intelligence, but in order to actually get the job, she’ll need the support of every single Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee—and it appears that she currently does not have the votes.
The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.
For nearly six decades, the Kennedys, thought of as American royalty, owned a mansion on Palm Beach. Joseph and Rose Kennedy in 1933 spent $120,000 on the more than 15,000-square-foot home with 176 feet of beachfront that had been designed by Addison Mizner. It was one year after their youngest child, Ted, was born.