Margot Cleveland Breaks Down 5 Ways Jack Smith’s Witch Hunt Ripped Up The Constitution

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The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland took the disgraced Biden-era FBI and DOJ to task on Tuesday during testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in a hearing on the lawfare efforts against President Donald Trump.

“After the 2020 election, an anti-Trump FBI agent named Tim Thibault attempted to use the Justice Department to destroy the president. Thibault’s efforts led to the launch of Arctic Frost,” Cleveland began.

Senate Republicans revealed in late 2025 that Biden’s DOJ and FBI compiled an “enemies list” of Republicans, going so far as to seize phone records of several Republican senators as part of their “get-Trump” lawfare efforts. As Cleveland previously explained, Arctic Frost was designed to “target Republicans in key battleground states,” and the investigation would ultimately lead to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump.

“As this committee well knows — because many of you were victims — Smith approved the subpoenas” to obtain toll records from several Republican senators. Notably, a subpoena for records from Sen. Ted Cruz fell flat after Cruz’s cellphone provider challenged the legality of the subpoena.