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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith said judges' distrust of prosecutors has made it impossible for the DOJ to do its job, warning of an "attack on the rule of law" under the current administration.
Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led the federal cases against Trump, stated publicly that judges no longer trust DOJ prosecutors to do their jobs impartially, making the department unable to enforce the law effectively. He framed this as an "attack on the rule of law" happening inside the current administration.
Smith is speaking from direct experience managing major prosecutions and watching judges' skepticism firsthand. When the person running federal cases against a president says judges won't trust his prosecutors anymore, he's describing an institutional collapse, not a disagreement. If judges don't trust the DOJ to act without political pressure, they won't issue warrants, accept guilty pleas, or enforce sentences the same way. The system doesn't work if the machinery of enforcement is seen as compromised.
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