About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump's classified documents case has blocked the DOJ from sharing special counsel Jack Smith's final report with select members of Congress.
The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?
The investigation into Trump was formally opened by the FBI on April 13, 2022, and was known inside the agency as "Arctic Frost."
Two senior Republican lawmakers released protected whistleblower disclosures Thursday revealing how an anti-FBI agent went outside established agency protocols for opening probes to help launch the federal election interference case against President Trump.
EXCLUSIVE: A previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent allegedly broke protocol and played a critical role in opening and advancing the bureau’s original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying President Trump to the probe without sufficient predication.
During Jan. 15 confirmation hearings for Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general who oversees the FBI as part of the Justice Department, Democratic senators pressed Bondi on whether Patel was a good choice to run the agency, pointing to Patel's previous comments calling for downsizing the intelligence community.