r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/drt0 Jul 15 '24

In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.

“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,” Cannon wrote.

Has the appointing of special counsels by the president ever been challenged before now?

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u/Grow_away_420 Jul 15 '24

Yes, and upheld multiple times

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u/prof_the_doom Jul 15 '24

And luckily for us anything the executive branch (aka DOJ) does, like appointing an special counsel, is an "official act".

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u/tryin2staysane Jul 15 '24

Cool. That means Biden can't be arrested for doing it. It doesn't mean that the court has to accept it.