America deserves a Justice Department that defends the Constitution, not a political hit squad that masquerades as impartial lawyering. This week’s grilling of former Special Counsel Jack Smith at the House Judiciary Committee lifted the veil on tactics that should alarm every patriot—nondisclosure orders, sweeping subpoenas, and a pattern of behavior that smells more like political theater than neutral prosecution.
Republican lawmakers laid out how Smith’s office quietly obtained phone toll records for sitting members of Congress, including high-profile figures, and did so under secrecy orders that kept the targets in the dark. Those are not mere technical violations; they’re a affront to the separation of powers when investigators trawl through lawmakers’ private communications without transparent oversight.
Members of Congress rightly raised the possibility that Smith’s subpoenas trampled the Speech or Debate Clause and threatened core legislative privileges, turning routine oversight into a potential constitutional crisis. When prosecutors treat representatives like criminal suspects and shield those actions from public review, trust in our institutions hemorrhages—and that’s exactly what happened during this probe.
Let’s be clear: Jack Smith’s team pursued high-stakes charges against a former president and others, only to withdraw or stall after political winds shifted, raising inevitable questions about timing and motive. The classified-documents case and the related maneuvers that followed—publicized through selective leaks and dramatic filings—left many Americans wondering whether law enforcement was being wielded as a political cudgel.
Now that pieces of Smith’s process are being exposed, including judicial orders blocking the partisan release of internal reports, the so-called “special” in special counsel rings hollow for those who value equal justice under law. Judges have stepped in to limit the DOJ’s disclosures, and Congress must not stop at speeches; it needs full, protracted oversight to get answers.
Patriots shouldn’t cower when the machinery of government is abused; we should demand accountability. If prosecutors overreached, if nondisclosure orders hid politically charged subpoenas, and if internal reports were buried to protect political allies, then those failures must be corrected with real reform and personnel consequences.
Greg Kelly and others on the right are doing what the legacy media won’t—calling out the weaponization of federal power and insisting that America’s institutions serve the people, not partisan operatives. Hardworking Americans deserve a DOJ that enforces the law evenhandedly, and until Congress forces transparency and accountability, skepticism about “justice” handed down from the Swamp is not only reasonable, it’s patriotic.

