The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday issued a harsh order halting the release of the special counsel's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents The post ‘No valid justification’: Cannon slams DOJ’s ‘urgent desire’ to release Jack Smith’s full Trump report based on a ‘non-existent historical practice’ first appeared on Law & Crime.

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's appeal, a move that moves the process a step closer to ending the classified documents case against President Donald Trump. The motion still has to be approved by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to The Hill newspaper.

The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."

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Fox News contributor Byron York discusses the Justice Department's decision to fire employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith in prosecuting President Donald Trump on ‘America’s Newsroom.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told a CNN reporter Monday he believes President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a path to the 50 required votes for Senate confirmation.

The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.