The Steady Drip: Jack Smith (U.S. Department of Justice special counsel) (Connecting the Dots: Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Jamie S. Gorelick, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama And His Friends, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Russia, Russia, Russia & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Jack Smith (U.S. Department of Justice special counsel) (Connecting the Dots: Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Jamie S. Gorelick, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama And His Friends, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Russia, Russia, Russia & Soros Funding, All Networking)

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Jack Smith was the special counsel at the United States Department of Justice in charge of investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith to this position in November 2022.^[1]

Smith said: "I intend to conduct the assigned investigations, and any prosecutions that may result from them, independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice. The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. I will exercise independent judgement and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate."^[2]

To read more about the federal prosecution of Trump regarding the handling of classified documents, click here, and to read more about the federal prosecution of Trump regarding interference in the certification of the 2020 presidential election, click here.

Biography

Smith received his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York, Oneonta, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Smith's professional experience includes working as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, and head of the U.S. Department of Justice's public integrity section. Smith also worked at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, as an investigation coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor from 2008 to 2010 and as a special prosecutor investigating war crimes in Kosovo from 2018 to 2022.

Harvard Law Review

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The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.

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