The Justice Department now enters a second Trump administration with less authority to pursue a president than it has had in half a century.

Like me on the hardwood, Jack Smith was a prosecutorial force when unopposed, undefeated when uncontested. But put him on (or in) the court, with a judge and defense team and political reality standing in the way, and he’s produced tepid results.

Special counsel Jack Smith, in his final report on his Jan. 6 investigation into Donald Trump, says Trump used "intimidation and harassment" to stymie his probe.