Trump Suspends Security Clearances for Law Firm Employees Tied to Jack Smith’s Prosecutions

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Feb. 25 suspending the security clearances for employees at a Washington-based law firm who worked on the former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations. The memo targets attorneys at Covington & Burling LLP who assisted Smith. A White House official said that the Trump administration would be “suspending and putting under review the security clearances for the attorneys and employees at that firm who worked with Jack Smith’s team” due to them providing pro bono legal services to the investigations. Smith investigated Trump in two cases: one based out of Washington regarding the president’s attempts to challenge the 2020 election, and the classified documents case based out of Florida. Trump has repeatedly called these investigations a “weaponization of government” and accused former President Joe Biden of directing his administration to pursue them at the Department of Justice....