House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing former Special Counsel Jack Smith and the former Biden administration of trying to "sway" the 2024 election with the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into President Donald Trump and his allies.Jordan's committee is releasing a new 57-page report arguing that Smith and his team "ran roughshod over key constitutional protections," and that the former Democratic White House used "the DOJ as a weapon against its political opponents.""The Special Counsel’s prosecutors tried to silence President Trump with unlawful gag orders, threatened defense attorneys, mishandled key documents, and broke protocol to release a massive trove of alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election to sway public opinion," the report said.As many as 44 members of Congress in both the House and Senate had the contents of their text messages gathered by Smith's team, Republicans have said.BIDEN SPECIAL COUNSEL’S 'RUNAWAY TRAIN’ SCOOPED UP SENSITIVE LAWMAKER INFO: 'ABUSE OF POWER'Former U.S.Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan.
22, 2026.(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)Jordan's report accused the prosecutors of willfully skirting legal processes to get that information in a bid to hide their intelligence gathering.JACK SMITH THRUST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT AT BLANCHE HEARING OVER EXPOSED SENATORS’ MESSAGES"Internal documents show that Arctic Frost investigators, and later Smith’s team, had only limited, perfunctory discussions with subject-matter experts in DOJ’s Public Integrity Section (PIN) about the constitutionality of these seizures," the report said.
"Although PIN cautioned that the subpoenas could be unconstitutional, PIN approved them nonetheless, asserting there was little 'litigation risk' because the gag orders that accompanied the subpoenas ...