The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."
The acting head of the Justice Department has fired more than a dozen officials and career attorneys who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith to charge and attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump for more than a year leading up to his November election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of President Donald Trump, a DOJ official said Monday.
The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?
The prosecutors, who were a part of special counsel Jack Smith's team ... the terminations were made by acting Attorney General James McHenry. The prosecutors who were affected by the terminations ...
The Justice Department has fired multiple employees who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith on his criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. Since his inauguration last week, the Trump administration has moved quickly to reshape the federal workforce—including ordering all federal workers back to the office and purging departments of diversity,
Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the terminations because ... of Justice fired over a dozen officials involved in Jack Smith’s prosecution of the president, The Post has confirmed.
House Democrats are demanding answers on the Justice Department’s move this week to fire more than a dozen officials involved in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, arguing the action was in “complete contradiction" of President Trump’s effort to keep a “merit-based system" for government employees.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired lawyers who assisted Jack Smith, saying he believes they “could not be trusted.”