Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over two investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, has resigned.

Special counsel Jack Smith submitted his final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday.

Jack Smith, the special counsel who led two federal criminal cases ... Judge Cannon ordered the release be put on hold until a higher appeals court, the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, considered an emergency appeal from Mr Nauta and Mr De Oliveir.

Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Trump.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who had dismissed the documents case in its entirety, temporarily barred the Justice Department from releasing Jack Smith’s account of his investigation.

Special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Trump's Jan. 6 election interference case asserts his team "stood up for the rule of law." Smith supports his decision to bring charges, believing they ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s ... is resolved by the Atlanta-based U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, unless the court orders otherwise. Smith pledged earlier in the ...

Trump has long criticized the two outstanding federal legal proceedings against him, of which Smith was at the helm. Here’s what to know about Smith and the investigations.

The Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep the rest of the report under wraps for now.

Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department ... if the legal case against them is ever revived. The Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Thursday ...

In his letter to Garland, Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that Smith was unlawfully appointed to the position of special counsel — the key reason Cannon dismissed the case last July. Thus, if his final report were to be published, it would violate the Appointments Clause and the Appropriations Clause, he said.

Attached to the motion was a strident 12-page letter dated Jan. 6, 2025, from Trump’s attorneys to Garland demanding that he halt all efforts to prepare and release Smith’s report, and throwing all manner of arguments, legal and political, into the mix.