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In what was hailed as a “seismic development” for former President Donald Trump, a Florida judge just dismissed the classified documents case against him.
Judge Aileen Cannon found that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution in a ruling on Monday.
“The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution,” she wrote in her 93-page ruling.
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“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” the Florida-based U.S. District judge wrote.
Cannon ruled that Smith, who was leading the prosecution of the case against Trump, was not lawfully appointed and thus, lacked the authority to bring the case at all.
“The dismissal of the classified documents case is a seismic development,” Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School professor, wrote on X. “From the beginning of all of these cases, I have said that the Mar-a-Lago case was the greatest threat to the former president. It is now dismissed.”
Indeed, the stunning development follows the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this month on presidential immunity. And it comes on the heels of a history-making weekend as the former president became the target of an assassin at his Pennsylvania rally…
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