Months before Jack Smith subpoenaed the toll records of scores of Republican senators, a Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court rejected the Special Counsel Office’s attempt to sidestep the Speech or Debate Clause in another case involving a congressman. That detail and more revealed in internal documents from the special counsel’s team obtained exclusively by The Federalist, expose the depth of disregard Smith held for constitutional separation of powers.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has authorized for public release another batch of documents related to Special Counsel Smith’s targeting of President Trump. This cache consists of some 50 pages of internal communications the Iowa senator obtained pursuant to his oversight role as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including two memoranda detailing the limits the D.C. Circuit’s decision in United States v. Rayburn House Off. Bldg., placed on the seizure of Congressional records — constitutional limits Special Counsel Smith would later disregard.
