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

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.

Valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were charged with conspiring with the president to obstruct an FBI investigation.

In a statement, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that the freeze would have devastating implications for the “most vulnerable people in our country,” and described the Trump administration’s forceful disregard of Congress’s powers as a “dangerous move towards authoritarianism.”

Yesterday (Monday, January 27), Trump fired more than a dozen of attorneys, which a justice department official told CBS News that Acting Attorney General James McHenry concluded they couldn't 'be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president'.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers on Tuesday shredded President Donald Trump's moves to purge the United States Department of Justice of lawyers who once worked for former special counsel Jack Smith.

The Justice Department has abandoned all criminal proceedings against two of President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the classified documents case against him in Florida, foreclosing the chance that the case against them could ever be revived.