Jack Smith resigns from US justice department as special counsel

Jack Smith, the justice department’s special counsel assigned to oversee two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, resigned Friday from the department. Smith’s resignation came hours after the department asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge’s order blocking the release of his investigative report focused on Trump’s alleged efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election before he re-takes office on 20 January. The release of a second Smith-authored report into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021 is currently delayed pending the outcome of criminal proceedings against two of Trump’s

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