Jack Smith was asked to lead several investigations involving former President Trump. One of those cases appears to be headed toward an indictment.
Three days after former President Donald Trump announced he was vying for the Republican nomination for president, Attorney General Merrick Garland went to an outside hire for help.
Prior to his work in the Middle District of Tennessee, he was chief of the Public Integrity Section within the Department of Justice. The DOJ said his role there was to supervise the litigation of complex public corruption cases across the country. Why was he named special counselThe Department of Justice has a long-standing policy of resisting political influence on investigations involving major political figures. For instance, the Department of Justice appointed Robert Mueller to investigate Trump’s campaign’s contacts with Russia and to what extent did Russian influence have on the 2016 election.
Garland also hired a special counsel late last year, Robert Hur, to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents after he left the vice presidency in 2017. "The Department of Justice has a strong interest in the prosecution of election fraud and other election-related crimes, such as those involving federal and state campaign finance laws, federal patronage laws, and corruption of the election process," wrote Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in 2008."As Department employees, however, we must be particularly sensitive to safeguarding the Department's reputation for fairness, neutrality, and nonpartisanship.
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