At a news conference just before the inauguration, Mr. Trump declared: “I defeated deranged Jack Smith. He’s a deranged individual. I guess he’s on his way back to the Hague” — a reference to the ...

For two years, Jack Smith held on to hope that he would be the ... Bringing his experience prosecuting war criminals at the Hague to the Department of Justice, Smith was a special counsel who ...

The move breaks with federal norms against punishing civil servants for actions taken under a different administration.

Smith — the former Hague prosecutor who was appointed as special ... He resigned from the Justice Department on Friday. Jack Smith resigned after submitting his final two-volume report from ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee ... the chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague charged with investigating war crimes in Kosovo.