Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Donald Trump.
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. has dismissed the indictment on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed, according to a court filing Monday.to dismiss the case. Other courts have rejected similar arguments to the one that he made in Florida about the legality of Smith’s appointment.
Cannon’s decision comes as Trump is preparing to be formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election, with the Republican National Convention beginning in Milwaukee on Monday. A spokesman for Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In her lengthy decision, Cannon said the issue of a special counsel was a novel one that had to be decided before the prosecution could proceed any further.
“Upon careful study of the foundational challenges raised in the Motion, the Court is convinced that Special Counsel’s Smith’s prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme—the role of Congress in the appointment of constitutional officers, and the role of Congress in authorizing expenditures by law,” Cannon concluded in her 93-page order.and funded has generally been considered far-fetched.
The former president’s lawyers did not make a similar request to dismiss Trump’s federal election interference case in D.C. — even though Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith to oversee that case in the same way as the Florida case.Thomas urged lower courts to explore this issue. The justice wrote that he tacked on his concurring opinion to the immunity ruling to “highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure.
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