BREAKING: FEDERAL COURT SLAMS JACK SMITH ABUSE OF POWER AND CONTEMPT OF COURT: "First, despite the Court’s holding in July 2024 that “the actions of Special Counsel Smith in connection with this proceeding must be set aside” due to his unconstitutional appointment [ECF No. 672 p. 83], Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing Volume II using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process. Defendants learned of this continued work in December 2024 through media reports and then timely raised their objections to Special Counsel Smith—but he continued unabated, offering defendants only the courtesy of brief review under strict conditions, including forced deletion of discovery materials in the custody of the defense. Understandably, Defendants moved for emergency relief to bar the impending release of Volume II, all the while Special Counsel Smith and his team separated from the Department of Justice; “referred” the criminal case to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida; and delivered Volume II to the Attorney General in a flurry of emergency motion practice leading up to the Presidential Transition—leaving no counsel of record available with actual knowledge of the particulars of the complex factual record in this case [see ECF No. 714 p. 6]. To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it. The Dismissal Order focused on the charging document on which the criminal proceeding hinged—the Superseding Indictment—and dismissed it [ECF No. 672 p. 84]. But it went on to explain that “all” of Special Counsel Smith’s actions in connection with this proceeding were ultra vires and must be set aside [ECF No. 672 p. 82; see ECF No. 672 pp. 82–84]. Nevertheless, rather than seek a stay of the Order, or clarification, Special Counsel Smith and his team chose to circumvent it, for months, by taking the discovery generated in this case and compiling it in a final report for transmission to then-Attorney General Garland, to Congress, and then beyond. The Court need not countenance this brazen stratagem or effectively perpetuate the Special Counsel’s breach of this Court’s own order."(Tom Fitton)