Smith is a former federal prosecutor who briefly served as the acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Three days after former President Donald Trump announced he was vying for the Republican nomination for president, Attorney General Merrick Garland hired special counsel Jack Smith. He was tasked with multiple investigations involving Trump, including the highly publicized classified documents probe.
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. After leaving the Department of Justice, he returned to international law. He served a four-year term as a specialist prosecutor with the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. The specialist prosecutor is tasked with crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other crimes under Kosovo law.
"Such an appointment underscores the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously, and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.” Mueller stated in his 2019 testimony to Congress that a sitting president could not be charged with a crime due to a long-standing Office of Legal Counsel guidance. But when asked by Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., if a former president could be indicted, Mueller simply responded, “Yes.”
The investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents was well underway when Smith was appointed. Federal authorities issued a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 to obtain the remaining documents.
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