A former federal prosecutor said Wednesday that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to drive a critical one-word distinction in a sweeping new filing to federal Judge Tanya Chutkan in his bid to ...

In July, Florida-based Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, dismissed the charges, ruling that Smith’s appointment as a prosecutor had not been approved ...

Judge Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, agreed with the former president’s legal team that the appointment of Jack Smith as a special prosecutor was unconstitutional and dismissed the case.

Trump prosecutor Jack Smith resigns from Justice Department (Reuters) -U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 ...

Jack Smith was a top war crimes prosecutor at The Hague before he began investigating Donald Trump. Skip to content. ... but Jack Smith is no stranger to bringing high-stakes cases.

Smith indicted Trump on Aug. 1, 2023, and by the end of the year, the prosecutor was racing to get the former president into a courtroom. But Smith would never say why he was in such a hurry.

Mr. Smith, a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, had signaled that he would step down before Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer Jack ...

Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade believes special counsel Jack Smith's move to dismiss Donald Trump's 2020 election ...

Jack Smith. The latest on Jack Smith. An American lawyer, Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as the Department of Justice's special counsel to oversee the criminal ...

Special Counsel Jack Smith's legal move to dismiss the cases against Donald Trump takes the possibility away from Trump's new attorney general to "mischaracterize" the reason behind the dismissals ...

Ex-prosecutor: Jack Smith could still keep Trump cases “alive” Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade said that Smith's request to nix the cases early could preserve them long-term ...

Jack Smith, the prosecutor who would never admit what he was doing. Amy Graham-McCarty, Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. Updated Thu, January 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM UTC. 6 min read.