Special counsel Jack Smith has spent much of the past two years prosecuting cases against President-elect Trump. With Trump set to assume office again, the cases end. The New York Times looks back at Smith’s work noting that rulings that went against him by courts that Trump helped shape may have given Trump and every future president more, not less, freedom from legal constraints. Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and chair of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group spoke with the publication noting, “What is clear is that the Department of Justice badly miscalculated the timing of the decision to appoint the special counsel close to the election, and misread President-elect Trump’s ability to undermine the public’s confidence in these investigations, by turning these criminal prosecutions into political opportunities.”
1.15.2025