{"id":367078,"date":"2026-07-22T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/house-judiciary-committee-chairman-jim-jordan-issues-criminal-referral-against-former-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-alleged-perjury"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:50:05","slug":"house-judiciary-committee-chairman-jim-jordan-issues-criminal-referral-against-former-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-alleged-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/house-judiciary-committee-chairman-jim-jordan-issues-criminal-referral-against-former-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-alleged-perjury","title":{"rendered":"Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan points legal referral towards former particular counsel Jack Smith for alleged perjury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a criminal referral against former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for allegedly making &#8220;willfully and intentionally false statements&#8221; when <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-testify-front-house\/story?id=129420778\" dir=\"ltr\">testifying before Congress last December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The Committee on the Judiciary writes to refer strong evidence that appears to show Jack Smith, former Special Counsel, knowingly made false statements during his December 17, 2025 deposition,&#8221; Jordan wrote in<!-- -->\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2026-07-22-jdj-to-doj-blanche-re-smith-referral.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">a letter<\/a>\u00a0<!-- -->sent to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lawyers for Smith did not immediately respond for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Top Judiciary Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin slammed the GOP-led criminal referral &#8212; calling it &#8220;baseless&#8221; and &#8220;vindictive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. <\/em><em class=\" \">Please<\/em><em class=\" \"> check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Politics\/house-judiciary-committee-chairman-jim-jordan-issues-criminal\/story?id=135006808\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a criminal referral against former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday for allegedly making &#8220;willfully and intentionally false [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6739,41195,1674,5221,9081,15778,9082,9083,465,1425,9318],"class_list":["post-367078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chairman","tag-committee-on-the-judiciary","tag-congress","tag-counsel","tag-jack-smith","tag-jamie-raskin","tag-jim-jordan","tag-judiciary-committee","tag-lawyer","tag-republican-party","tag-todd-blanche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367080,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367078\/revisions\/367080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}