Bondi, in an extensive Fox News interview, provided details of the ongoing and apparently widening political purge of the Justice Department and FBI.
President Trump’s executive order sanctioning the law firm that advised Special Counsel Jack Smith on a pro bono basis could soon hurtle headlong into one of the Constitution’s bedrock protections of due process — that the accused enjoys the right to have assistance of counsel for his defense.
Three lawsuits — including one from the New York Times — press the case that the special counsel’s final word belongs to the public.
The special counsel’s employment prospects could be coming into focus, though hiring him is not without risk while the 47th president is in office.
Special counsel Jack Smith's secret documents case against Donald Trump was unceremoniously dismissed over the summer — and the president now says those boxes that were seized are now being returned to Florida to be placed in his future presidential library.
They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” Trump said of the boxes. “Justice finally won out.”
The memorandum signed by Trump yanks the clearances of “Koski and all members, partners, and employees of Covington & Burling LLP who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith during his time as Special Counsel, pending a review and determination of their roles and responsibilities.”
The White House is suspending the active security clearances of lawyers from the large legal defense firm Covington & Burling who are working with former special counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Donald Trump unsuccessfully on behalf of the Justice Department under the Biden administration.
President Trump’s executive order targeting Special Counsel Jack Smith’s personal attorney and the attorney’s law firm, Covington & Burling, underscores an emerging policy targeting the agents of what Mr. Trump and his aides call “the weaponization of government.”
Trump quipped that they would call the memo the “deranged Jack Smith signing,” invoking a pejorative he has frequently used to attack the former special counsel. The memo states that ... of government. The Justice Department in January fired several ...
President Donald Trump is targeting the elite Washington law firm that is representing former special counsel Jack Smith ... the citizens of the United States.” The firm has been providing pro bono personal legal services to Smith, who oversaw federal ...
One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.
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