Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced a lawsuit against Former Special Counsel Jack Smith over his accessing of phone records secretly obtained during his investigation of President Donald Trump.
The Senator is suing Smith in his personal capacity, arguing he was never lawfully empowered to wield the authority behind the Arctic Frost investigation.
A report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan confirms that Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.
Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.
Fox News reports that the lawsuit, Senator Marsha Blackburn v. John L. Smith, “argues the prosecutor lacked lawful authority to serve as special counsel and violated the lawmaker’s rights by obtaining the records.”
The Senator is asking a federal court to provide several things: declare Smith’s appointment unconstitutional, order the records destroyed, and award nominal damages in the amount of $1.
The case therefore seeks to test not only Smith’s tactics, but the legitimacy of the authority he claims to have exercised as special counsel appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Biden administration.
“This lawsuit is solely about holding Mr. Smith accountable and ensuring that our nation’s justice system can never again be weaponized against the American people,” Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital.
“Through his Arctic Frost witch-hunt that targeted conservatives across America and even the president of the United States, Jack Smith perpetrated one of the worst abuses of government power in our nation’s history,” she said.
On Tuesday, Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his federal criminal investigation into President Trump.
During the testimony, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) noted Smith’s actions represent “the most egregious abuse of power in the history of the Department of Justice.”
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