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Jack Smith spent $35.7 million on two lawsuits against Donald Trump.
$19 million was primarily used for staff salaries and $16 million was used for unpaid parts costs.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office has spent $35.7 million since 2022 on the two federal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump.
A federal judge in Florida has dismissed one of those lawsuits, and another in Washington, D.C., is pending after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president has broad immunity for official acts taken while in office.
Smith's office incurred direct expenditures of $19,437,874, primarily for employee salaries. According to public reports filed by Smith's office, the office reported an additional $16,306,612 in unreimbursed component expenses, including unreimbursed expenses attributable to the investigation, such as the work hours of investigators and investigative support analysts.
The prosecution is funded by a “permanent and open-ended appropriation for the Independent Counsel.”
Jack Smith's classified documents lawsuit has been dismissed; he is appealing the decision.
U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon on Monday dismissed a classified documents lawsuit against former President Donald Trump over the way he appointed special counsel Jack Smith.
“Because the appointment of Special Counsel Smith violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, the indictment is dismissed,” wrote Cannon, who was appointed to the judge by a former president. He said the Constitution gives only Congress or the president the power to appoint a special counsel, not the U.S. attorney general.
Smith disputed that argument, and other federal courts have upheld the constitutionality of special counsel, but Cannon's ruling adds months to the litigation, even if it is likely to be appealed.
“None of the statutes cited as the legal basis for the appointments give the Attorney General broad power to appoint lower-level officials or the right to appoint federal officials with the prosecutorial powers exercised by Special Counsel Smith,” Cannon wrote. “Neither the Special Counsel's heavy-handed statutory arguments, appeals to contradictory history, nor reliance on extracircuit authority persuades us otherwise.”
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