Overview

• House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan set an October 28 deadline for Jack Smith to sit for a closed-door interview and produce internal records.
• Reports say Smith’s office used 2023 grand jury subpoenas to obtain phone toll records—call times and durations, not content—for nine Republican senators and one representative, with no indication the lawmakers were investigative targets.
• Speaking in London on October 8, Smith defended his work as independent and called claims of political motivation “absolutely ludicrous.”
• The Justice Department dropped Smith’s cases after President Trump’s reelection, citing the longstanding policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
• The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened a Hatch Act inquiry into Smith, and committee transcripts indicate some former aides declined to answer questions or invoked the Fifth Amendment.