Explosive new report puts Jack Smith back in hot seat as Jim Jordan alleges he tried to 'sway' 2024 election

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan , R-Ohio, is accusing former Special Counsel Jack Smith and the former Biden administration of trying to "sway" the 2024 election with the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into President Donald Trump and his allies.

Jordan's committee is releasing a new 57-page report arguing that Smith and his team "ran roughshod over key constitutional protections," and that the former Democratic White House used "the DOJ as a weapon against its political opponents." "The Special Counsel’s prosecutors tried to silence President Trump with unlawful gag orders, threatened defense attorneys, mishandled key documents, and broke protocol to release a massive trove of alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election to sway public opinion," the report said.

As many as 44 members of Congress in both the House and Senate had the contents of their text messages gathered by Smith's team, Republicans have said.

BIDEN SPECIAL COUNSEL’S 'RUNAWAY TRAIN’ SCOOPED UP SENSITIVE LAWMAKER INFO: 'ABUSE OF POWER' Jordan's report accused the prosecutors of willfully skirting legal processes to get that information in a bid to hide their intelligence gathering.

JACK SMITH THRUST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT AT BLANCHE HEARING OVER EXPOSED SENATORS’ MESSAGES "Internal documents show that Arctic Frost investigators, and later Smith’s team, had only limited, perfunctory discussions with subject-matter experts in DOJ’s Public Integrity Section (PIN) about the constitutionality of these seizures," the report said.

"Although PIN cautioned that the subpoenas could be unconstitutional, PIN approved them nonetheless, asserting there was little 'litigation risk' because the gag orders that accompanied the subpoenas would prevent Members from ever discovering the seizures.

As a result, Members of Congress were unaware of the Biden-Harris DOJ’s spying for more than two years." The report said investigators in the probe, colloquially known as "Arctic Frost," sought Jordan's own phone records from the period between August 2020 and January 2021 in relation to the federal probe into Rep.

Scott Perry, R-Pa.

VETERAN DEM BREAKS PARTY LINE AS JACK SMITH SPYING SCANDAL GRIPS CAPITOL HILL PIN said lawmakers' constitutional protections under the Speech or Debate Clause did not apply "because the subpoena targeted his personal cell phone accounts, and because the subpoenas were served to a third party," i.e., Jordan's phone carrier rather than Jordan himself.

An email excerpt showed PIN Deputy Chief Jennifer Clarke noted there was a "litigation risk" with the argument but "approved the subpoenas nonetheless," the report said.