As the GOP targets his law license, Jack Smith slams the ‘retaliatory political stunt’

Over the last couple of years, Republicans have tried and failed to uncover evidence of wrongdoing on the part of former special counsel Jack Smith, though that has not stopped GOP lawmakers from treating the prosecutor like a punching bag.

Republican Rep. Michael Rulli of Ohio accused Smith of acts that he said bordered on “treason”; Sen. Marsha Blackburn referred Smith to the Justice Department for a misconduct investigation, based on misguided allegations the Tennessee Republican did not appear to understand; House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan also referred the former special counsel to the DOJ for a potential criminal investigation for reasons that were plainly absurd.

But in case that were not quite enough, several other GOP members have even pushed for Smith’s disbarment, and the former prosecutor is now pushing back against these baseless efforts. Politico reported:

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who prosecuted President Donald Trump, is calling a GOP senator’s bid to seek his disbarment a “retaliatory political stunt” that misstates the scope of Congress’ immunity from prosecutorial scrutiny and relies on selectively leaked documents.

In a Nov. 3 letter to Tennessee bar discipline officials, reviewed by POLITICO, Smith said a complaint by Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty was meant to punish Smith a day after his September testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

At issue is a Senate hearing Republicans held in late September, ostensibly to try to trip up the former prosecutor, which ended up making Smith look better and GOP senators look worse. (This was the hearing in which Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri humiliated himself by confusing a men’s professional basketball team with a women’s college basketball team.)

Nevertheless, the day after the fiasco, Hagerty went after Smith’s law license, based largely on the bizarre “Arctic Frost” faux controversy, which was discredited months ago.

With that in mind, Smith’s lawyers wrote a 21-page response to Hagerty’s pitiful pitch, arguing persuasively, “This meritless complaint is a retaliatory political stunt and should be dismissed.”

If merit has any bearing on the outcome, the Tennessee Republican should probably keep his expectations low: The former special counsel has the facts, the law and reality on his side.

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