{"id":16485,"date":"2025-12-10T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-judiciary-plans-hearings-around-jack-smith-probe-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:25","slug":"senate-judiciary-plans-hearings-around-jack-smith-probe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-judiciary-plans-hearings-around-jack-smith-probe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary plans hearings around Jack Smith probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings in early 2026 surrounding former special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s investigation into President Donald Trump &mdash; culminating in a hearing later in the year&nbsp;where Smith will testify in person before the panel. &ldquo;Arctic Frost was a runaway train that swept up information from hundreds of innocent people simply because of their political affiliation,&rdquo; Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said in a statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/08\/congress\/senate-judiciary-plans-smith-hearings-00681147\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings in early 2026 surrounding former special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s investigation into President Donald Trump &mdash; culminating in a hearing later in the year&nbsp;where Smith will testify in person before the panel. &ldquo;Arctic Frost was a runaway train that swept up information from hundreds of innocent people simply because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}