The Justice Department has been completely out of control under Joe Biden.
Donald Trump is going to try to clean house there.
And a Fox News star had this surprising message for Trump’s attorney general nominee.
Jack Smith’s witch hunt raises questions about the future of Special Counsels
President-elect Donald Trump had to battle an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the Russian collusion hoax during his first term.
The nearly two-year-long investigation concluded that there were no ties between Trump and the Russians but it bogged down his Presidency.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump over allegedly mishandling classified documents and January 6.
Smith dropped those cases against Trump after he won the election.
The President-elect nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to be his Attorney General after former Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dropped his bid.
Bondi is being sent in to clean up the weaponized Justice Department.
Fox News legal editor Kerri Kupec Urbahn was asked how Bondi could change the Justice Department during an appearance on America’s Newsroom.
“I think Pam Bondi has a really great opportunity here to be-, to have a legacy, to leave a legacy of being a reformer of the Department of Justice,” Urbahn said. “And one of the first things I think she should do is work with Congress to get rid of Special Counsels once and for all. Special Counsels are the epitome of prosecutors with unfettered power. And think about this, $100 million later between Bob Mueller and Jack Smith.”
Special Counsels have unconstitutional powers
Urbahn noted that the weaponization of the Justice System at the federal level was driven by Special Counsels.
“You know, here we are, their country is reeling from what they see as an abuse of justice over a former President upon our now future President,” Urbahn explained. “And the way this happened, at least on the federal level, was via these special counsels. This is something that can be eliminated.”
She pointed out that the job of Special Counsel is redundant.
“And the question then becomes, ‘Okay, well, if there’s an investigation that needs to be done, who will do it?’ And the answer to that is one of the 93 U.S. Attorneys,” Urbahn stated. “That’s their job. And they need to be trusted to be able to do that. When Bill Barr was A.G., he did it on a number with a number of U.S. Attorneys, and they did it quietly and they did it well.”
Special Counsels have far more power than U.S. Attorneys with nationwide jurisdiction and often a nearly limitless budget.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas questioned the Constitutionality of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s position because it hadn’t been established by a law passed by Congress during Trump’s immunity claim earlier this year.
District Court Judge Alieen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Trump arguing in part that the Special Counsel’s office violated the Constitution’s appropriations because Congress never authorized its budget.
Smith’s case came to an end before the Supreme Court could take up the Constitutionality of the Special Counsel position.
Shutting down the Special Counsel role would be a good step toward ending lawfare.
