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(The Hill) -- Special counsel Jack Smith plans to wrap up his enactment and resign from his station earlier President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.
Trump has boasted that helium plans to occurrence Smith “within 2 seconds” of taking bureau and has besides made different threatening remarks astir the peculiar counsel, including that helium should beryllium arrested.
The New York Times archetypal reported the development.
Smith connected Friday asked for a suspension of deadlines in Trump’s predetermination interference case, noting some the unprecedented quality of a president entering bureau portion facing charges arsenic good arsenic a Justice Department (DOJ) memo barring the prosecution of a sitting president.
The authorities needs “time to measure this unprecedented condition and find the due people going guardant accordant with Department of Justice policy,” the section wrote.
DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) advises against the transgression prosecution of a sitting president, concluding successful 1973 that “criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capableness of the enforcement subdivision to execute its constitutionally assigned functions.”
Smith’s bureau declined to comment.
