Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases ... Justice Department under the Biden administration and setting up a “working group” to investigate the phenomenon.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge ordered Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith not to publicly release ... Make Washington make sense: Sign up for USA TODAY's On Politics newsletter.

In the coming weeks, there is a very real possibility that the federal district court in Florida will rule that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Jack Smith as a special counsel ...