Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after failing to successfully bring his cases against President-elect Donald Trump to trial.
Smith’s resignation comes as his office has engaged in last-minute legal wranglings to release its work against Trump before President Joe Biden leaves office. The resignation Saturday comes just nine days before Trump’s inauguration, after which Smith would likely be fired.
In late November, after Trump’s election victory, Smith filed a motion to dismiss his election interference case against Trump in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and then filed a motion in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to dismiss an appeal in the documents case, which “will leave in place the district court’s order dismissing the indictment without prejudice as to him.”
Smith’s…
