{"id":30274,"date":"2025-01-12T02:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/jack-smith-resigns-from-us-justice-department-as-special-counsel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:24:27","slug":"jack-smith-resigns-from-us-justice-department-as-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/jack-smith-resigns-from-us-justice-department-as-special-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Smith resigns from US justice department as special counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smith, who tried to prosecute Donald Trump over classified documents and US Capitol riot, stepped down Friday<\/p>\n<p>Jack Smith, the justice department\u2019s special counsel assigned to oversee two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, resigned Friday from the department.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s resignation came hours after the department asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing a judge\u2019s order blocking the release of his investigative report focused on Trump\u2019s alleged efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election before he re-takes office on 20 January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/11\/jack-smith-resigns-justice-department\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith, who tried to prosecute Donald Trump over classified documents and US Capitol riot, stepped down Friday Jack Smith, the justice department\u2019s special counsel assigned to oversee two criminal investigations into Donald Trump, resigned Friday from the department. Smith\u2019s resignation came hours after the department asked a federal appeals court to move swiftly in reversing &#8230; <a title=\"Jack Smith resigns from US justice department as special counsel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/jack-smith-resigns-from-us-justice-department-as-special-counsel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jack Smith resigns from US justice department as special counsel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}