Trump's lawyers will argue in court that Smith was illegally appointed and therefore cannot prosecute the former president.

"So there is enormous irony that Meese is now arguing Merrick Garland lacked the power to appoint Jack Smith to be special ..

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) has requested access to special counsel Jack Smith’s case file for his 2020 election subversion prosecution of President-elect Trump, citing her case ...

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith and his team plan to resign ... regulations to provide a confidential report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who can choose to make it public.

Special Counsel Jack Smith is required to submit to the Justice ... including whether to make public the results of the report, to outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland. Smith — a longtime ...

By Alan Feuer Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, has asked a federal judge for an emergency order that would force the special counsel, Jack Smith, to preserve all of his investigative ...

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions ... “Acting Attorney General James McHenry made this decision because ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has requested special counsel Jack Smith's documents on his investigation into the 2020 election. Mayes sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland dated ...

During his first full week in office, Trump's pardon attorney has reviewed applications for Jan. 6 rioters and a former state senator prosecuted by Jack Smith’s onetime unit.