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.

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.

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.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action favorable to the president’s personal interests.

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 ...

Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired lawyers who assisted Jack Smith, saying he believes they “could not be trusted.”

It can be overwhelming. Trump is trying to “flood the zone” so we focus on a few outrages that we find most offensive and lose sight of the big picture — the larger strategy he and Musk and their cronies are pursuing.

Kash Patel invoked his right not to incriminate himself before a grand jury examining whether Donald Trump mishandled national security secrets.

President Trump’s FBI Director nominee Kash Patel on Thursday will face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about his suitability to lead the premier law enforcement agency.