WASHINGTON — Jack Smith is in the Senate’s witness chair Tuesday morning. The Judiciary Committee called the hearing what it is: oversight of his abuse of authority and the targeting of Republicans.
It starts at 9 a.m. Eastern in Hart Senate Office Building room 216. Chairman Chuck Grassley is running it. Smith, the former special counsel, is the witness. The live page on the committee site was still telling viewers to check back for video as the gavel approached.
The fight is Arctic Frost, the probe that fed Smith’s election case against President Trump. Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson have released records showing Smith’s team obtained text messages involving current and former members of Congress. House Judiciary Republicans say investigators pulled phone records tied to Republican lawmakers and put nondisclosure orders on the requests so those members would not know. A Speech or Debate problem is not a paperwork quibble. It is the Constitution.
This is also about whether Smith told Congress the truth. In July, Rep. Jim Jordan said Smith may have lied in December 2025 closed-door testimony about whether his team got lawmakers’ records while investigating Trump. Jordan referred him to the Justice Department. Smith’s lawyers, Peter Koski and Lanny Breuer, say he testified truthfully and call the referral an attack on a prosecutor who followed the facts. The Senate gets to test that claim under oath.
Patriots have heard the “nonpartisan public servant” line for years. What they have not had, until this morning, is Smith on the record in a public Senate hearing about Arctic Frost, congressional phone records, and the prosecutions aimed at President Trump. Accountability is the point. Watch the hearing. Do not take his word for the investigation he ran.
