Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action favorable to the president’s personal interests.

The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought two criminal cases against Trump, resigned before the Republican could fulfil his campaign pledge to fire him, but more than a dozen members of his team were sacked on Monday.