Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Judiciary Republicans’ Request for Testimony from Former Special Counsel Jack Smith
Washington, D.C. (October 14, 2025)— Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to Judiciary Republicans’ request that former Special Counsel Jack Smith testify before the Committee:
“In a completely unexpected and welcome twist, Chairman Jordan’s letter today to Jack Smith clearly demands the release of Smith’s full Report, and all accompanying records, from his investigation into Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents and obstruction of justice at Mar-a-Lago. An extraordinary years-long MAGA cover-up has deprived the American public of the opportunity to read this special counsel report that the taxpayers paid for. But Chairman Jordan, in demanding ‘all documents you sent...during your service as Special Counsel relating to your work, your investigation, your charging decisions...’ has finally taken a comprehensive stand for complete transparency and accountability. Congratulations.
“Jack Smith's first Report, like other special counsel reports, has been disclosed and made available to the public. It is high time that this Report be made available too, and I thank Chairman Jordan for taking this significant step forward. I knew that his commitment to public transparency and integrity—and his allergy to coverups and playing political games with public disclosure—would prevail in the final analysis.
“Of course, everyone can see the irony today in Judiciary Republicans demanding that Jack Smith come testify about so-called ‘politically motivated’ prosecutions’ just days after Trump’s handpicked Acting U.S. Attorney indicted yet another one of the President’s widely-proclaimed political targets on direct orders from Trump himself. Surely we can expand this investigation to include Donald Trump’s handpicked political prosecutions against James Comey and Letitia James.
“When our Republican colleagues complete their nostalgic rerun investigations of the Biden Administration and fail yet again to identify even a whiff of wrongdoing in Jack Smith’s work, we hope they will join Committee Democrats in demanding serious accountability from this DOJ.
“Why don’t we start by demanding an end to the cover-up of the Epstein files and the Homan $50,000 bribe next? Meantime, we look forward to finally receiving the Jack Smith Report on Trump and the classified documents!”