House Judiciary report accuses Biden-era DOJ of spying on GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith's Trump investigations
The House Judiciary Committee released an interim report Wednesday alleging the Biden-Harris Justice Department secretly obtained phone records and text messages from dozens of Republican members of Congress during Special Counsel Jack Smith's twin probes of Donald Trump, a move the committee says violated core constitutional protections.The report, the product of a multi-year congressional investigation into Smith's tenure, concludes that the FBI and Smith's team used grand jury subpoenas to sweep up toll records from at least 17 GOP lawmakers and text messages from as many as 44, all without notifying the affected members or giving them a chance to challenge the collection in court.
Among those whose records were gathered: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan himself.
The committee's central charge is that Smith's operation trampled the Speech or Debate Clause, the provision in Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution that shields members of Congress from executive-branch interference in their official duties.
That clause exists for a reason older than the republic itself, to prevent a president or his prosecutors from using law-enforcement power to rifle through a legislator's work product and private communications.
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