Former Special Counsel Jack Smith to Testify Publicly to Congress

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led two now-dismissed criminal cases against President Donald Trump, will testify before Congress later this month. Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee announced on Jan. 12 that the hearing is scheduled for Jan. 22. This will be the first time Smith publicly defends his failed prosecutions in an open hearing before the committee. In December 2025, he appeared before the panel for a more than eight-hour, closed-door deposition. Smith brought two of the four criminal cases against Trump while the latter was running for a second term in the White House: one in Florida accusing Trump of illegally retaining classified documents, and the other in Washington accusing him of trying to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol....