Jack Smith resigns from DOJ

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By Thomas Stevenson
Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from his position in the Biden administration's Department of Justice. This comes right before Trump is set to take office.  

According to Politico, Smith's resignation was revealed in a court filing that was submitted to US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday by the DOJ. "The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the Department on January 10," a footnote in the filing read. 

The filing from the DOJ urged Judge Cannon to not extend a court order that she issued recently that temporality blocked Smith’s final report.  

Smith had gone after Trump in two separate cases, one accused the President-elect of willfully retaining classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and the other alleged that he has committed conspiracy to defraud the United States among other accusations. However, the J6 and documents case charges were all dropped after Trump won the November election. 

In the Mar-a-Lago documents case, Trump’s team filed a amicus brief in the case of his two former co-defendants on Thursday in an attempt to stop Smith's final report from the investigation. "The report is nothing less than another attempted political hit job which sole purpose is to disrupt the Presidential transition and undermine President Trump’s exercise of executive power," the brief stated. 

Biden DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland, however, says that he plans on publicly releasing the report on Smith’s investigation into J6 when time allows. The resignation from Smith was widely expected as Trump has promised to shake things up at the DOJ with a number of outsider appointments.  

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed that Smith would be gone "within two seconds" of him taking office. The DOJ has faced heavy criticism from Trump as well as others in the GOP as the cases against Trump have been seen by some as politically motivated. 
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