{"id":2366253,"date":"2024-11-08T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-committee-sends-jack-smith-an-ominous-warning-as-he-files-motion-to-pause-trump-case\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:11:52","slug":"house-judiciary-committee-sends-jack-smith-an-ominous-warning-as-he-files-motion-to-pause-trump-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-committee-sends-jack-smith-an-ominous-warning-as-he-files-motion-to-pause-trump-case\/","title":{"rendered":"House Judiciary Committee Sends Jack Smith an Ominous Warning as He Files Motion to Pause Trump Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-judiciary-committee-sends-jack-smith-an-ominous-warning-as-he-files-motion-to-pause-trump-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2366253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Republicans have drawn attention to Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s actions following President-elect \u2064Donald\u2064 Trump&#8217;s victory. Key figures like Rep. Jim Jordan \u200dand Rep. Barry\u200b Loudermilk are demanding that Smith \u200dpreserve all records related to prosecutions\u200d of Trump, citing concerns that his office may attempt to destroy or alter relevant documents. The\u200b request includes various inquiries concerning the use of FBI\u2064 agents and communications with the White House. Recently, a judge paused Smith\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-his-move-after-his-trial-date-is-set-for-day-before-super-tuesday\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s Announcement Comes After Trial Date Set Before Super Tuesday.\">election interference \u2062case<\/a> against Trump to assess the situation and confirm how the government will move forward. Trump has indicated he plans to dismiss Smith if given the \u200dopportunity and refers \u2063to a Supreme Court\u2064 ruling that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">grants sitting presidents\u200d immunity<\/a> from prosecution \u200bfor official actions. Smith \u200bis \u200dexpected to provide an update by \u2062December 2 regarding the \u2064prosecution.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have put Special Counsel Jack Smith on notice that they are watching his actions in the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s victory.<\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;Chairman Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jim-jordan-threatens-letitia-james-subpoena-trump-prosecutor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> of Ohio and House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia have ordered Smith to &ldquo;preserve all records surrounding the Biden-Harris Administration&rsquo;s politicized prosecutions of President Donald Trump,&rdquo; according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/chairman-jordan-and-rep-loudermilk-demand-jack-smith-preserve-records-related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/01\/politics\/special-counsel-jack-smith-donald-trump-investigation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> report said members of Smith&rsquo;s office were &ldquo;gaming out legal options.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/08\/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-in-trump-criminal-case-to-assess-unprecedented-circumstance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a>, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan paused Smith&rsquo;s election interference case against Trump, which was requested by Smith&rsquo;s office, saying it needed &ldquo;time to assess this unprecedented circumstance&rdquo; that the object of prosecution can have it ended in January &ldquo;and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The filing said Smith will submit an update by Dec. 2 of how the government plans to proceed.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jack Smith:<\/p>\n<p>Preserve your records. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Toazp1EATk\">pic.twitter.com\/Toazp1EATk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; House Judiciary GOP &#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480; (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1854932175700849117?\">November 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jordan and Loudermilk warned Smith that they are watching him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With President Trump&rsquo;s decisive victory this week, we are concerned that the Office of Special Counsel may attempt to purge relevant records, communications, and documents responsive to our numerous requests for information,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/JDJ%20and%20Loudermilk%20to%20Jack%20Smith%2011.8.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Office of Special Counsel is not immune from transparency or above accountability for its actions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Furthermore, this letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to the Office of Special Counsel&rsquo;s investigations and prosecutions of President Trump,&rdquo; the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The letter listed requests for information from Smith&rsquo;s office, some of which date from June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The requests include information on such things as how Smith&rsquo;s office use FBI agents and whether any had previously investigated Trump and communications with the White House.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/jack-smith-trump-jan-6-case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, not only could whoever Trump appoints as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-election-games-have-one-thing-in-common-shifting-power-from-voters-to-party-bosses\/\" title=\"Democrats Playing Election Tactics: Empowering Party Leaders Over Voters\">attorney general end<\/a> the investigation against him, &ldquo;longstanding Justice Department policy bars the prosecution of sitting presidents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-calls-jack-smiths-new-court-move-pure-election-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> has said he would dismiss Smith, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/special-counsel-jack-smith-expected-wind-trump-prosecutions\/story?id=115571646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">&ldquo;We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It&rsquo;s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. He&rsquo;ll be one of the first things addressed,&rdquo; Trump said in an interview last month..<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Trump was referring to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a sitting president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/supreme-court-issues-highly-anticipated-ruling-trump-immunity-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immunity<\/a> from prosecution for his official actions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, have instructed Smith to &#8220;preserve all records related to the Biden-Harris Administration&#8217;s politically motivated prosecutions of President Trump.&#8221; A CNN report prior to the election indicated that Smith&#8217;s office was exploring legal options. Recently, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan paused Smith&#8217;s case against Trump for election interference at Smith\u2019s request, stating it required &#8220;time to assess this unprecedented circumstance&#8221; where prosecution could conclude in January and determine a suitable path forward in line with Department of Justice policy. The filing noted that Smith will provide an update by December 2 regarding how the government intends to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan and Loudermilk expressed their concerns about potential record destruction by Smith\u2019s office following Trump&#8217;s significant win: \u201cWe are worried that the Office of Special Counsel may try to eliminate relevant records in response to our requests for information.\u201d They emphasized that transparency and accountability apply even to the Office of Special Counsel and formally requested preservation of all current and future records related to its investigations into Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The letter included requests for information dating back to June 2023 regarding how FBI agents were utilized by Smith\u2019s office, any previous investigations into Trump, and communications with the White House.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by The New York Times, whoever Trump appoints as attorney general could potentially terminate his investigation since longstanding Justice Department policy prohibits prosecuting sitting presidents. According to ABC News, Trump has stated he would dismiss Smith if given the chance: \u201cI would fire him within two seconds&#8230; He\u2019ll be one of my first priorities,\u201d referencing a Supreme Court ruling granting sitting presidents immunity from prosecution for official actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jack-Smith.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44641,32463,33575],"class_list":["post-2366253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-jack-smith","tag-trump-case"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jack-Smith.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366257,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366253\/revisions\/2366257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}