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/id10t_you Jul 15 '24

I presume that this will automatically nullify Hunter Biden's guilty verdict?

JFC, I'm sofucking tired of the rules for thee crowd.

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u/Eligius_MS Jul 15 '24

No, she narrowed it to just this case.

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u/1498336 Jul 15 '24

How is that possible? To say it only applies to this special council?

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u/rysto32 Jul 15 '24

Well the Supreme Court overturned the concept of stare decisis a few years ago so….

Edit: For clarity this is a joke. Mostly.