Several weeks after Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., filed an ethics complaint against former special counsel Jack Smith , broadly complaining about the way President Donald Trump was investigated and prosecuted during his 2024 campaign, Smith's lawyers have responded that the attempt to allege violations of the Hatch Act are "unprecedented" and doomed to fail.

Recall that Cotton called for an investigation into whether Smith "unlawfully took political actions to influence the 2024 election to harm then-candidate President Donald Trump," claiming that "many" of the then-special counsel's "legal actions seem to have no rationale" beyond mere politics.

In a letter to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and its acting head Jamieson Greer, however, Covington & Burling attorneys Lanny Breuer and Pete

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