Trump’s Firing of Jack Smith’s Team Emerges as Cutting Edge of the President’s Efforts To Curtail the ‘Deep State’

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

AP /Mark Schiefelbein
President Trump speaks at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami at Doral, January 27, 2025. AP /Mark Schiefelbein

President Trump’s firing of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutorial team could be ground zero for his efforts to remake the federal government — curtailing what his supporters call the “deep state” — and to set the 47th president on a rendezvous at the Supreme Court. 

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