The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

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.

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

The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."

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 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,

including some who worked on investigations led by former special counsel Jack Smith, according to a report published Monday. A letter obtained by CNN from acting Attorney General James McHenry to ...