A federal judge on Monday dismissed Jack Smith’s created classified documents case against President Donald Trump because Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley said, “The dismissal of the classified documents case is a seismic development. 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.”
BREAKING: Judge Cannon just dismissed the Trump documents case, citing the UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENT AND FUNDING OF SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH
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The dismissal of the classified documents case is a seismic development. 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.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 15, 2024
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said the Biden administration, in its “lawfare” against Trump, illegally handed the authority of the United States government to a prosecutor who was not confirmed by the Senate.
Critics pointed out that the maneuvers Democrats followed handed the authority of the government to, more or less, an average citizen who held no authority to prosecute anyone.
Cannon’s ruling said, “Former President Trump’s motion to dismiss indictment based on the unlawful appointment and funding of special counsel Jack Smith is granted in accordance with this order … The superseding indictment is dismissed because special counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. … Special counsel Smith’s use of a permanent indefinite appropriation also violates the Appropriations Clause … but the court need not address the proper remedy for that funding violation given the dismissal on Appointments Clause grounds.”
Trump also had pointed out that the FBI already had confessed that it destroyed exculpatory evidence during its stunning, armed 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Trump’s filings with the court suggested a political motivation in the case.
The issue of Smith’s appointment already had been raised in the U.S. Supreme Court, where Justice Clarence Thomas, in his own opinion in a recent case on Trump’s immunity for acts while in office, openly suggested Smith was not appointed legally in the scheme by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Thomas said Smith was not a Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney.
“Even if the Special Counsel has a valid office, questions remain as to whether the Attorney General filled that office in compliance with the Appointments Clause,” Thomas charged. “For example, it must be determined whether the Special Counsel is a principal or inferior officer. If the former, his appointment is invalid because the Special Counsel was not nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, as principal officers must be.”
More to come …
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