Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith on Thanksgiving made his first public move since being tasked with leading the investigation into whether former President Donald Trump violated the Espionage Act and other federal laws with Trump’s handling of certain records, including records with classified markings.
Smith’s brief, one-page letter to an appeals court, challenged an assertion made a day earlier by lawyers for Trump.
Lawyers for both sides—not including Smith—offered oral arguments to the court on Nov. 22 as to a motion by the government to remove U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie as special master.
Dearie is currently adjudicating disputes between the parties over records seized from Trump’s Florida resort by FBI agents in August….