A Supreme Court lawyer and former acting U.S. solicitor general who drafted the special counsel regulations blasted Judge ...

United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has appealed a judge ... said that special prosecutors can be named by the US Department of Justice. “This [ruling by Cannon] goes against decades ...

The federal judge overseeing the criminal case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled classified government ...

Smith — who was appointed as special counsel by US Attorney General Merrick Garland — later vowed through his office to appeal ... “The Justice Department has authorized the Special Counsel ...

Getty Images “House Republicans repeatedly argued that Special Counsel Jack Smith abused his office’s authority ... a Trump appointee, cited US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent ...

it only made “passing reference” to the federal laws the Justice Department cited in defending Smith’s appointment. “Perhaps there is an answer for why these statutes create an office for the Special ...

A spokesperson for the Justice Department said in a statement to States Newsroom that the “Department is ... “The Committee thus needs those recordings to assess the Special Counsel’s characterization ...

Defense lawyers filed multiple challenges to the case, including a legally technical one that asserted that special counsel ... that his office was improperly funded by the Justice Department.