EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.

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

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same

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.

DOJ had continued prosecuting Trump aides Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira even after it dropped its case against Trump after his successful election. Now that case too, is going away.

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss its appeal in the Mar-a-Lago case, pushing to bring an end to the classified documents case. The motion, which comes after the U.S. Attorney’s

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending the case against his former co-defendants in the classified documents investigation brought by former special counsel Jack Smith.

House Democrats are demanding answers on the Justice Department’s move this week to fire more than a dozen officials involved in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, arguing the action was in “complete contradiction" of President Trump’s effort to keep a “merit-based system" for government employees.

The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,