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

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

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.

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

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

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,

The prosecutors, who were a part of special counsel Jack Smith's team ... the terminations were made by acting Attorney General James McHenry. The prosecutors who were affected by the terminations ...

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.

Senate Judiciary Democrats have told acting attorney general, James R McHenry III, to provide relevant materials on Patel which is mentioned in a report from former special counsel Jack Smith about Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents. Kash Patel had been called to testify in the probe and was granted immunity, Politico reported.

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