Jack Smith files last-minute appeal.
Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a last-minute appeal with the 11th Circuit Court yesterday in the ongoing classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. It’s been a little more than two years since the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, seizing boxes and boxes of documents they say are classified. Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal criminal case last month, just a few days after the attempted assassination of Trump. Smith said he planned to appeal her ruling and this is precisely what he did.
Judge Cannon’s initial ruling stated that Attorney General Merrick Garland had exceeded his authority when he appointed Smith as a special counsel, saying that Congress needed to authorize Garland’s move and that, without it, Smith’s appointment violated the…
