House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan says he is mulling whether to call Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, to testify before his committee.
“Everything’s on the table,” Jordan told reporters Wednesday. “I’m just now looking at his report.”
Smith led cases around Trump’s retention of classified documents after his first term in office, and Trump’s efforts overturn the results of the 2020 election. This month, Smith released his report into the election subversion case, arguing that he would have been able to obtain a conviction had Trump not won reelection in 2024, making him immune to prosecution.
The report on the classified documents case has not been released, but outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to share it with House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders.
Jordan, an Ohio Republican, has repeatedly argued that Smith’s efforts were politicized — which Smith forcefully denied in his report — and has already signaled that he wants to hear from the special counsel.
But now that one of Smith’s reports is public and Smith has resigned from the Justice Department, it could pave the way for his testimony before his committee. It has become fairly routine for special counsels to testify before Congress at the end of their tenures.
