U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently blasted special counsel Jack Smith over his recent court filing. 

Cotton, according to The Hill, even went so far as to refer to Smith as "a deranged fanatic."

Smith is the prosecutor whom the Biden-Harris administration has chosen to go after their top political opponent - former President Donald Trump. Smith has done so by bringing two cases against Trump: the classified documents case in Florida and the election interference case in Washington, D.C.

While the Florida case has been thrown out, the D.C. case is ongoing. And, in the case, Smith recently made a move that has even been condemned by many on the left.

Background

In case you missed it, Smith recently filed a 165-page document with the court, and, in that filing, Smith went after Trump.

Many are arguing that this was clearly an attempt by Smith to influence the 2024 presidential election. The filing - which was significantly longer than typical filings of the kind - was essentially an anti-Trump manifesto.

What many have taken issue with, though, is the proximity of this filing to the 2024 presidential election. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has a rule it is not supposed to make any moves that could have an influence on the election. Smith clearly broke this rule.

Even CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig has admitted this.

Honig wrote:

The larger, if less obvious, headline is that Smith has essentially abandoned any pretense; he'll bend any rule, switch up on any practice — so long as he gets to chip away at Trump's electoral prospects. At this point, there's simply no defending Smith's conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis.

Cotton weighs in

It is this move by Smith that Cotton responded to during an appearance over the weekend on NBC News's Meet The Press. 

There, he said:

Well, what I, what I think about what Jack Smith did this week, is that it was a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic who is angry that he keeps losing time and time again in the Supreme Court over the course of his career.

Cotton did not stop there.

He continued:

[Smith] went to court. He asked for special permission to file a brief that’s four times as long as a normal brief, and to have it disclosed less than 30 days before the election. This … is professional misconduct, in all likelihood, by Jack Smith, and it should be investigated.

We will have to see if it is.